G'day Don(Wysiwyg)T,

The Drover's Dream provides quite a good 'spotting list' for local Aussie fauna.

Dingo is the local wild dog ... probably descended from hunting dogs that came in the later days of Australian Aboriginal arrival (... maybe 10 - 15 centuries back ...).

Bandicoot is a marsupial of about the size and shape of a large rat ... and the name comes from some British soldier with previous Indian Raj experience - the word is from the Telegu: "pandikokku" = ~ "pig rat".

In the first line of the last stanza, you have misheard "brolgas" as "bolders". Brolgas are large birds of the crane family - grus rubicundis - the idea of them dancing a 'quadrille' (e.g. - The Lancers) is covered in replies - some distance above.

Regard(les)s,

Bob