"Eyre succeeded in shooting a fine wallaby."
[Note]: "A small kind of kangaroo, inhabiting the scrub."
1873. A. Trollope, `Australia and New Zealand,' c. vii. p. 117:
"I have also been frowned upon by bright eyes because I could not eat stewed wallabi. Now the wallabi is a little kangaroo, and to my taste it is not nice to eat even when stewed to the utmost with wine and spices."
1880. Garnet Watch, `Victoria in 1880,' p. 7:
"To hear . . . that wallabies are `the women of the native race' cannot but be disconcerting to the well-regulated colonial mind." [He adds a footnote]: "It is on record that a journalistically fostered impression once prevailed, to high English circles, to the effect that a certain colonial Governor exhibited immoral tendencies by living on an island in the midst of a number of favourite wallabies, whom he was known frequently to caress."
188x. A. C. Grant, `Bush Life in Queensland,' vol. i. p. 213:
"Now one hears the pat-pat-pat of a wallaby."
1885. J. B. Stephens, `To a Black Gin,' p. 5:
"Of tons of 'baccy, and tons more to follow,—
Of wallaby as much as thou could'st swallow,—
Of hollow trees, with 'possums in the hollow."