Chestnut-crowned B.—
<i>P. ruficeps</i>, Hart.
Red-breasted B.—
<i>P. rubeculus</i>, Gould.
White-browed B.—
<i>P. superciliosus</i>, V. and H.
<hw>Back-blocks</hw>, <i>n</i>. (1) The far interior of Australia, and away from settled country. Land in Australia is divided on the survey maps into blocks, a word confined, in England and the United States, to town lands.
(2) The parts of a station distant from the <i>frontage</i> (q.v.).
1872. Anon. `Glimpses of Life in Victoria,' p. 31:
". . . we were doomed to see the whole of our river-frontage purchased. . . . The back blocks which were left to us were insufficient for the support of our flocks, and deficient in permanent water-supply. . . ."
1880. J. Mathew, Song—`The Bushman':
"Far, far on the plains of the arid back-blocks
A warm-hearted bushman is tending his flocks.
There's little to cheer in that vast grassy sea:
But oh! he finds pleasure in thinking of me.
How weary, how dreary the stillness must be!
But oh! the lone bushman is dreaming of me."
1890. E. W. Horning, `A Bride from the Bush,' p. 298: