1896. H. G. Turner, `Lecture on J. P. Fawkner':
"For some years he cultivated and developed his capacity for rhetorical argument by practising in the minor courts of law in Tasmania as a paid advocate, a position which in those days, and under the exceptional circumstances of the Colony, was not restricted to members of the legal profession, and the term Bush Lawyer probably takes its origin from the practice of this period."
<hw>Bush-magpie</hw>, <i>n</i>. an Australian bird, more commonly called a <i>Magpie</i> (q.v.).
1888. Cassell's `Picturesque Australasia,' vol. ii. p. 235:
". . . the omnipresent bush-magpie. Here he may warble all the day long on the liquid, mellifluous notes of his Doric flute, fit pipe indeed for academic groves . . . sweetest and brightest, most cheery and sociable of all Australian birds."
<hw>Bushman</hw>, <i>n</i>. (1) Settler in the bush. Used to distinguish country residents from townsfolk.
1852. `Blackwood's Magazine,' p. 522 (`O.E.D.'):
"Where the wild bushman eats his loathly fare."
1880. J. Mathew, song, `The Bushman:'
"How weary, how dreary the stillness must be!
But oh! the lone bushman is dreaming of me."