Moloney, "Melbourne": First printed in `The Australasian'
over the signature "Australis".
Domett, "An Invitation": First printed in "Flotsam and Jetsam": reprinted,
with alterations, as Proem to "Ranolf and Amohia", Second Edition, 1883.
Domett, "A Maori Girl's Song": "A very free paraphrase of a song in Sir George Grey's collection. `Ropa' is a declaration of love by pinching the fingers." — Author's Note.
Stephens, "Day" & "Night": Stanzas from "Convict Once" [pp. 336-7, 297-9 respectively of "Poetical Works" (1902)].
Foott, "Where the Pelican Builds": "The unexplored parts of Australia are sometimes spoken of by the bushmen of Western Queensland as the home of the Pelican, a bird whose nesting-place, so far as the writer knows, is seldom, if ever, found." — Author's Note.
Foott, "New Country": `Gidya' — a Queensland and N.S.W. aboriginal word
for a tree of the acacia species (A. homalophylla).
`Clay-Pan' — a shallow depression of the ground on Australian plains,
whose thin clayey surface retains water for a considerable time.
Wilson, "Fairyland": `Parson Bird' — The Tui, or New Zealand mocking bird.
The male has tufts of curled white feathers under the neck,
like a clergyman's bands.
Farrell, "Australia to England": First printed, under the title of
"Ave Imperatrix", in `The Daily Telegraph' (Sydney), on June 22, 1897,
the day of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.
F. Adams, "Gordon's Grave": Adam Lindsay Gordon is buried
in Brighton (Victoria) Cemetery. Above the grave is erected
a shattered column crowned with a laurel wreath.