<hw>Dray</hw>, <i>n</i>. an ordinary cart for goods. See quotation, 1872.
1833. C. Sturt, `Southern Australia,' vol. i. Intro. p. xlix:
"They send their produce to the market . . . receiving supplies for home consumption on the return of their drays or carts from thence."
1872. C. H. Eden, "My Wife and I in Queensland,' p. 31:
"A horse dray, as known in Australia, is by no means the enormous thing its name would signify, but simply an ordinary cart on two wheels without springs." [There are also spring-drays.]
1886. H. C. Kendall, `Poems,' p. 41:
"One told by camp fires when the station drays
Were housed and hidden, forty years ago."
<hw>Dromicia</hw>, <i>n</i>. the scientific name of the Australian <i>Dormouse Phalangers</i>, or little <i>Opossum</i>- or <i>Flying-Mice</i>, as they are locally called. See <i>Opossum</i>, <i>Opossum-mouse</i>, and <i>Phalanger</i>. They are not really the "Flying"-Mice or Flying-phalanger, as they have only an incipient parachute, but they are nearly related to the <i>Pigmy Petaurists</i> (q.v.) or small <i>Flying-Phalangers</i>. (Grk. <i>dromikos</i>, good at running, or swift.)
<hw>Drongo</hw>, <i>n</i>. This bird-name was "given by Le Vaillant in the form <i>drongeur</i> to a South African bird afterwards known as the Musical Drongo, <i>Dicrurus musicus</i>, then extended to numerous . . . fly-catching, crow-like birds." (`Century.') The name is applied in Australia to <i>Chibia bracteata</i>, Gould, which is called the <i>Spangled Drongo</i>.
1895. W. 0. Legge, `Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science' (Brisbane), p. 448: