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Neilloan

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Neilloan, 'the mallee-fowl' — to the Boorong, the star Vega in the Lyre is the mallee-fowl whose rising in autumn tells when to gather her eggs; a star read as a season. The Greeks heard a lyre here; the Boorong, a nesting bird. — Boorong (Wergaia), rec. Stanbridge 1857