1880. Mrs. Meredith, `Tasmanian Friends and Foes,' p. 231:
"The handsome red-stemmed shrub known as native pepper. . . . Something like cayenne and allspice mixed, . . . the aromatic flavour is very pleasant. I have known people who, having first adopted its use for want of other condiments, continue it from preference."
1888. Cassell's `Picturesque Australasia,' vol. iii. p. 138:
"Bright green pepper-trees with their coral berries."
1882. Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, `Fish of New South Wales,' p. 31:
"Lates colonorum, the perch of the colonists . . , really a fresh-water fish, but . . . often brought to the Sydney market from Broken Bay and other salt-water estuaries. . . . The perch of the Ganges and other East Indian rivers (L. calcarifer) enters freely into brackish water, and extends to the rivers of Queensland."
[See Burramundi. L. colonorum is called the Gippsland Perch, in Victoria.]
1882. Ibid. p. 45:
"The other genus (Chilodactylus) is also largely represented in Tasmania and Victoria, one species being commonly imported from Hobart Town in a smoked and dried state under the name of `perch.'"
1894. `The Argus,' March 28, p. 5, col. 4:
"When a man (or party) has nearly died through want of water he is said to have `done a perish.'"
1882. Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, `Fish and Fisheries of New South Wales,' p. 122:
"Trochocochlea constricta, Lam., is used as a substitute for the British perriwinkle, but it is only consumed to a very small extent."
1886. P. Clarke, `New Chum in Australia,' p. 184 (`Century'):
"So up jumps Tom on the bar overhead with a long pething-pole, like an abnormally long and heavy alpenstock, in his hand; he selects the beast to be killed, stands over it in breathless . . . silence, adjusts his point over the centre of the vertebra, and with one plunge sends the cruel point with unerring aim into the spinal cord."
1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol. i. pl. 46:
"Pezoporus Formosus, Ill., Ground-parrakeet; Swamp-parrakeet, Colonists of Van Diemen's Land; Ground-parrakeet, New South Wales and Western Australia."
1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `The Miner's Right,' p. 249:
"The cry of the night-bird, the rustle of the phalangers and the smaller marsupials, as they glided through the wiry frozen grass or climbed the clear stems of the eucalypti."
1891. `Guide to Zoological Gardens, Melbourne':
"A pair of the Short-headed Phalanger (Belideus breviceps) occupy the next division."
1894. R. Lydekker, `Marsupialia,' p. 75:
"The second great family of the herbivorous Diprotodont Marsupials is typically represented by the creatures properly known as phalangers, which the colonists of Australia persist in misnaming opossums. It includes however several other forms, such as the Flying-Phalangers [q.v.] and the Koala [q.v.]."
1853. J. West, `History of Tasmania,' vol. i. p. 324:
"The phascogales are small insectivorous animals found on the mountains and in the dense forest-parts of the island, and little is known of their habits."
1872. A. Domett, `Ranolf,' p. 209:
"A span-long Phasmid then he knew,Stretching its fore-limbs like a branching twig."
(1) The Lyre-bird (q.v.).
(2) The Lowan (q.v.), and see Turkey.
For Pheasant-fantail, see Fantail.
1877 (before). Australie, `From the Clyde to Braidwood,' quoted in `Australian Ballads and Rhymes' (edition Sladen, p. 10):
". . . Echoing notesOf lyre-tailed pheasants, in their own rich notes,Mocking the song of every forest-bird."
1885. Wanderer, `Beauteous Terrorist, etc., p. 60:
"And have we no visions pleasantOf the playful lyre-tail'd pheasant?"
1846. J. L. Stokes, `Discoveries in Australia,' vol. i. c. vi. p. 125:
"I shot over the island and enjoyed some very fair sport, especially with the pheasant-cuckoo."
1860. G. Bennett, `Gatherings of a Naturalist,' p. 180:
"That remarkable little bird, the `Pheasant's Mother' of the colonists, or Spine-tailed Orthonyx (Orthonyx spinicauda), about which also ornithologists have some difference of opinion respecting its situation in the natural system:'
1894. R. Lydekker, `Marsupialia,' p. 36:
"Aru Island Wallaby. Macropus brunnii, Cuvier (1817). Didelphys brunnii, Schreber (1778). . . Distribution.— Aru and Kei Islands. This species has an especial interest as being the first member of the Kangaroo-family known to Europeans, specimens having been seen in the year 1711 by [Philander de] Bruyn living in the gardens of the Dutch Governor of Batavia. They were originally described under the name of Philander or Filander."
1834. L. E. Threlkeld, `Australian Grammar,' p. 10:
[As a barbarism] "piyaller, to speak."
1885. R. M. Praed, `Head Station,' p. 314:
"Hester seized the shrinking black and led him forward, wildly crying that she would `pialla' the Great Spirit, so that no evil should befall him."
1696. D'Urfey's `Don Quixote,' pt. iii. c. v. p. 41 (Stanford):
"Dear pinkaninny [sic],If half a guinyTo Love wilt win ye."
1830. R. Dawson, `Present State of Australia,' p. 12:
"`I tumble down pickaninny here,' he said, meaning that he was born there."
1845. R. Howitt, `Australia,' p. 103:
"Two women, one with a piccaninny at her back."
1847. L. Leichhardt, `Overland Expedition,' p. 520:
"Bilge introduced several old warriors . . . adding always the number of piccaninies that each of them had."
1890. C. Lumholtz, `Among Cannibals,' p. 305:
"We can even trace words which the Europeans have imported from the natives of other countries—for example picaninny, a child. This word is said to have come originally from the negroes of Africa, through white immigrants. In America the children of negroes are called picaninny. When the white men came to Australia, they applied this name to the children of the natives of this continent."
1848. W. Westgarth, `Australia Felix,' p. 104:
"The hut would be attacked before `piccaninny sun.'"
[Footnote]: "About daylight in the morning."
1884. J. W. Bull, `Early Life in South Australia,' p. 69:
[An Englishman, speaking to blacks] "would produce from his pocket one of his pistols, and say, `Picaninny gun, plenty more.'"
1896. G. A. Keartland, `Horne Expedition in Central Australia,' part ii. Zoology, Aves, p. 69:
"Pardalotus ornatus and Pardalotus affinis give forth a treble note which has secured for them the name of `Pick-it-up' from our country boys."
1896. Modern:
"If a man's horse is awkward and gives him trouble, he will say, `I had a picnic with that horse,' and so of any misadventure or disagreeable experience in travelling. So also of a troublesome business or other affair; a nursemaid, for instance, will say, `I had a nice picnic with Miss Nora's hair.'"
1845. E. J. Wakefield, `Adventures in New Zealand,' c. ii. p. 6:
"The pig-dogs are of rather a mongrel breed, partaking largely of the bull-dog, but mixed with the cross of mastiff and greyhound, which forms the New South Wales kangaroo-dog" [q.v.]
1877. R. Gillies, `Transactions of New Zealand Institute,' vol. x. art. xliii. p. 321:
"A pig-dog of the bull-terrier breed."
Bronze-wing Pigeon (q.v.)—Phaps chalcoptera, Lath.
Brush Bronze-wing P.—P. elegans, Temm.
Crested P.—Ocyphaps lophotes, Temm.
Flock or Harlequin Bronze-wing (called also Squatter, q.v.)— Phaps histrionica, Gould.
Little-Green P.—Chalcophaps chrysochlora, Wagl.
Naked-eye Partridge-P.—Geophaps smithii, Jard. and Selb.
Nutmeg P.—Carpophaga spilorrhoa, G. R. Gray.
Partridge-P.—Geophaps scripta, Temm.
Pheasant-tailed P.—Macropygia phasianella, Temm.
Plumed P.—Lophophaps plumifera, Gould.
Red-plumed Pigeon— Lophophaps ferruginea, Gould. [He gives vernacular "Rust-coloured."]
Rock P.—Petrophassa albipennis, Gould.
Top-knot P.—Lopholaimus antarcticus, Shaw.
White-bellied Plumed P.—Lophophaps leucogaster, Gould.
Wonga-wonga P. (q.v.)—Leucosarcia picata, Lath.
See also Fruit-Pigeon, Harlequin Pigeon, Partridge-Pigeon, Torres Straits Pigeon.
For New Zealand Pigeon, see Kuku.
1834. Ross, `Van Diemen's Land Annual,' p. 133:
"Mesembryanthemum aequilaterale, pig faces; called by the aborigines by the more elegant name of canagong. The pulp of the almost shapeless, but somewhat ob-conical, fleshy seed vessel of this plant, is sweetish and saline; it is about an inch and a half long, of a yellowish, reddish, or green colour."
1844. Mrs. Meredith, `Notes and Sketches of New South Wales,' p. 45:
"Great green mat-like plants of the pretty Mesembryanthemum aequilaterale, or fig-marigold, adorned the hot sandy banks by the road-side. It bears a bright purple flower, and a five-sided fruit, called by the children `pig-faces.'"
1848. W. Westgarth, `Australia Felix,' p. 132:
"The pig's face is an extremely common production of the Australian soil, growing like a thick and fleshy grass, with its three-sided leaf and star-shaped pink or purple flower, occupying usually a rocky or dry light soil."
1879. C. W. Schuermann, in `The Native Tribes of South Australia,' p. 217:
"Though this country is almost entirely destitute of indigenous fruits of any value to an European, yet there are various kinds which form very valuable and extensive articles of food for the aborigines; the most abundant and important of these is the fruit of a species of cactus, very elegantly styled pig's-faces by the white people, but by the natives called karkalla. The size of the fruit is rather less than that of a walnut, and it has a thick skin of a pale reddish colour, by compressing which, the glutinous sweet substance inside slips into the mouth."
1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p. 44:
"Pig-faces. It was the canajong of the Tasmanian aboriginal. The fleshy fruit is eaten raw by the aborigines: the leaves are eaten baked."
1838. T. L. Mitchell, `Expeditions into Eastern Australia,' p. 131:
"The feet, and especially the fore feet, were singularly formed, the latter resembling those of a hog."
1893. A. R. Wallace, `Australasia,' p. 68:
"Another peculiar form, the Choeropus, or pig-footed bandicoot."
1884. Rolf Boldrewood, `Melbourne Memories,' c. xiv. p. 105:
"Among them was a large proportion of bullocks, which declined with fiendish obstinacy to fatten. They were what are known by the stock-riders as `ragers' [q.v.] or `pig-meaters.'"
1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `A Colonial Reformer,' p. 218:
"`Pig-meaters!' exclaimed Ernest; `what kind of cattle do you call those? Do bullocks eat pigs in this country?' `No, but pigs eat them, and horses too, and a very good way of getting rid of rubbish.'"
1845. E. J. Wakefield, `Adventures in New Zealand,' vol. ii. p. 15:
"We procured an abundant supply of piarau, a `lamprey,' which is taken in large numbers in this river, and some others in the neighbourhood, when the waters are swollen."
1865. Lady Barker, `Station Life in New Zealand,' p. 20:
"The `Pilgrims,' as the first comers are always called.I like the name; it is so pretty and suggestive."
1877. W. Pratt, `Colonial Experiences or Incidents of Thirty-four Years in New Zealand,' p. 234:
"In the `Dream of a Shagroon,' which bore the date Ko Matinau, April 1851, and which first appeared in the `Wellington Spectator' of May 7, the term `Pilgrim' was first applied to the settlers; it was also predicted in it that the `Pilgrims' would be `smashed,' and the Shagroons left in undisputed possession of the country for their flocks and herds."
1893. `The Argus,' March 25, p. 4, col. 6:
"Here, close together, are eggs of the lyre-bird and the pilot-bird—the last very rare, and only found quite lately in the Dandenong Ranges, where the lyre-bird, too, has its home."
1793. J. E. Smith, `Specimen of Botany of New Holland,' p. 32:
"Gaertner . . . adopted the name of Pimelea from the manuscripts of Dr. Solander. It is derived from pimelae, fat, but is rather a pleasantly sounding than a very apt denomination, unless there may be anything oily in the recent fruit."
18W. `Goldfields of Victoria,' p. 22:
"Sometimes 100 to 200 tons of payable quartz would be raised from one of these so-called reefs, when they would pinch out, and it would be found that they were unconnected with other leaders or veins."
Black Pine—Frenela endlicheri, Parlat.Irenela robusta,A. Cunn.
(Of Otago)— Podocarpus ferruginea,Don.; Maori name, Miro (q.v.).; P. spicata, R. Br.; Maori name, Mai, or Matai (q.v.).
Celery-topped P. (q.v.)— (In Australia)— Phyllocladus rhomboidalis, Rich.
(In New Zealand)—
P. trichomanoides, Don.; Maori name, Tanekaha(q.v.);P. glauca, andP. alpinus; Maori name, Toatoa, and often alsocalled Tanekaha.
Colonial P.—Araucaria cunninghamii, Ait.
Common P.—Frenela robusta, A. Cunn.
Cypress P.—Frenela endlicheri, Parlat.F. rhomboidea, Endl.F. robusta (var. microcarpa), A. Cunn.F. robusta (var. verrucosa), A. Cunn.
Dark P.— (In Western New South Wales)— Frenela robusta, A. Cunn.
Dundathu P.—Dammara robusta, F. v. M.
Hoop P.—Araucaria cunninghamii, Ait.
Huon P. (q.v.)—Dacrydium franklinii, Hook.
Illawarra Mountain P.—Frenela rhomboidea, Endl.
Kauri P. (q.v.)Agathis australis, Salis.
Lachlan P.—Frenela robusta, A. Cunn.
Light P.—(Of Western New South Wales)—Frenela rhomboidea, Endl.
Macquarie P.—Dacrydium franklinii, Hook.
Mahogany Pine— Podocarpus totara, A. Cunn.; Maori name, Totara, (q.v.).
Moreton Bay P.—Araucaria cunninghamii, Ait.
Mountain Cypress P.—Frenela parlatorii, F. v. M.
Murray P.—Frenela endlicheri, Parlat.
Murrumbidgee P.—Frenela robusta, A. Cunn.
New Caledonian P.—(Of New Caledonia and the New Hebrides)—Araucaria cookii, Cook.
Norfolk Island P.—Araucaria excelsa, Hook.
Oyster Bay P. (q.v.)—(In Tasmania)—Frenela rhomboidea, Endl.
Port Macquarie P.—Frenela macleayana, Parlat.
Prickly P.—(In Queensland)—Flindersia maculosa, F. v. M., N.O. Meliaceae;called also Leopard Tree (q.v.).
Queensland Kauri P.—Dammara robusta, F. v. M.
Red P.—(In Australia)—Frenela endlicheri, Parlat.(In New Zealand)—Dacrydium cupressinum, Soland; called also Rimu(q.v.).
Rock P.—(In Western New South Wales)—Frenela robusta (var. verrucosa), A. Cunn.
Screw P.— Pandanus odoratissimus, Linn., N.O. Pandaneae; not endemic in Australia.
Scrub P.—Frenela endlicheri, Parlat.
She P.—(In Queensland)—Podocarpus elata, R. Br.
Silver P.—Dacrydium colensoi, Hook.; i.q. Yellow Pine.
Stringy Bark P.—Frenela parlatorei, F. v. M.
Toatoa P.— Phyllocladus alpinus, Hook.; Maori name, Toatoa (q.v.).
White P.—(In Australia)—Frenela robusta, A. Cunn.F. robusta (var. microcarpa), A. Cunn.Podocarpus elata, R. Br.
(In New Zealand)— P. dacryoides, A. Rich.; Maori name, Kahikatea (q.v.).
Yellow P.— Dacrydium colensoi, Hook.; Maori name, Manoao (q.v.).
1832. J. Bischoff, `Van Diemen's Land,' p. 180:
"The Green Forest . . . comprises myrtle, sassafras, celery-top pine, with a little stringy-bark."
1838. T. L. Mitchell, `Three Expeditions,' vol- i. p. 51.
"On the little hill beside the river hung pines (Callitris pyramidalis) in great abundance."
1891. W. Tilley, `Wild West of Tasmania,' p. 43:
"The King River is only navigable for small craft . . . Piners' boats sometimes get in."
1836. Ross, `Hobart Town Almanack,' p. 105:
"These were the days of `pipes.' Certain supposed home truths . . . were indited in clear and legible letters on a piece of paper which was then rolled up in the form of a pipe, and being held together by twisting at one end was found at the door of the person intended to be instructed on its first opening in the morning."
1852. J. West, `History of Tasmania,' vol. i. p. 107:
"Malice or humour in the early days expressed itself in what were called pipes—a ditty either taught by repetition or circulated on scraps of paper: the offences of official men were thus hitched into rhyme. These pipes were a substitute for the newspaper, and the fear of satire checked the haughtiness of power."
1872. Hutton and Hector, `Fishes of New Zealand,' p. 118:
"Angling for garfish in Auckland Harbour, where it is known as the piper, is graphically described in `The Field,' London, Nov. 25, 1871. . . . the pipers are `just awfu' cannibals,' and you will be often informed on Auckland wharf that `pipers is deeth on piper.'"
1820. `Grammar and Vocabulary of Language of New Zealand' (Church Missionary Society), p. 193:
"Pipi, s. a cockle."
1881. J. L.Campbell, `Poenamo,' p. 107:
"With most deliciously cooked kumeras, potatoes and peppies" [sic].
Ibid. p. 204:
"The dernier ressort—fern-root, flavoured with fish and pippies."
1882. T. H. Potts, `Out in the Open,' p.25:
"Each female is busily employed in scraping the potatoes thoroughly with pipi-shells."
1845. `Voyage to Port Phillip,' etc., p. 53:
"The warbling melops and the piping crow,The merry forest fill with joyous song."
1845. E. J. Wakefield, `Adventures in New Zealand,' c. i. p. 57:
"The pitau, or tree-ferns, growing like a palm-tree, form a distinguishing ornament of the New Zealand forest."
1896. E. C. Stirling, `Home Expedition in Central Australia, Anthropology, pt. iv. p. 99:
"I do not know the origin of the name `Pitchi,' which is in general use by the whites of the parts traversed by the expedition, for the wooden vessels used for carrying food and water and, occasionally, infants."
Blue-breasted Pitta—Pitta macklotii, Mull. and Schleg.
Noisy P.—P. strepitans, Temm.
Rainbow P.—P. iris, Gould.
1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol. iv. pl. 1:
"Pitta strepitans, Temm., Noisy Pitta. There are also Rainbow Pitta, Pitta iris, and Vigor's Pitta, P. Macklotii.
1869. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia' (Supplement):
"Pitta Macklotii, Mull. and Schleg."
1863. `Proceedings of the Royal Society of Van Diemen's Land,' April, p. 1:
"`Pitcherry,' a narcotic plant brought by King, the explorer, from the interior of Australia, where it is used by the natives to produce intoxication. . . . In appearance it resembled the stem and leaves of a small plant partly rubbed into a coarse powder. . . . On one occasion Mr. King swallowed a small pinch of the powder, and described its effects as being almost identical with those produced by a large quantity of spirits."
1883. F. M. Bailey,' Synopsis of Queensland Flora,' p. 350:
"Pitury of the natives. The leaves are used by the natives of Central Australia to poison emus, and is chewed by the natives as the white man does the tobacco."
1883. G. W. Rusden, `History of Australia,' vol. i. p. 101:
"In one part of Central Australia the leaves and twigs of a shrub called pidgery by the natives are dried and preserved in closely woven bags. . . . A small quantity has an exhilarating effect, and pidgery was highly prized."
1890. C. Lumholtz, `Among Cannibals,' p. 49:
"The leaves contain a stimulant, which possesses qualities similar to those of tobacco and opium, and are chewed by several tribes in the interior of Australia. Pituri is highly valued as a stimulant, and is taken for barter far and wide."
1890. A. S. Vogan, `Black Police,' p. 94:
"One of the virtues that the native drug Pitchurie is supposed to possess when used by the old men is the opening up of this past life, giving them the power and perquisites of seers."
1893. Mr. Purcell, `Lecture before Geographical Society, Sydney,' Jan.:
"Mr. Purcell had travelled over nearly the whole of Queensland, and had only seen the plant growing in a very limited area west of the Mullyan River, 138th meridian of east long., and on the ranges between the 23rd and 24th parallel of south latitude. He had often questioned the Darling blacks about it, and they always replied by pointing towards the north west. The blacks never, if they could possibly help it, allowed white men to see the plant. He himself had not been allowed to see it until he had been initiated into some of the peculiar rites of the aborigines. Mr. Purcell showed what he called the pitchery letter, which consisted of a piece of wood covered with cabalistic marks. This letter was given to a pitchery ambassador, and was to signify that he was going to the pitchery country, and must bring back the amount of pitchery indicated on the stick. The talisman was a sure passport, and wherever he went no man molested the bearer. This pitchery was by no means plentiful. It grew in small clumps on the top of sandy ridges, and would not grow on the richer soil beneath. This convinced him that it never grew in any other country than Australia. The plant was cooked by being placed in an excavation in which a fire had been burning. It then became light and ready for transport. As to its use in the form of snuff, it was an excellent remedy for headaches, and chewed it stopped all craving for food. It had been used with success in violent cases of neuralgia, and in asthma also it had proved very successful. With regard to its sustaining properties, Mr. Purcell mentioned the case of a blackboy who had travelled 120 miles in two days, with no other sustenance than a chew of pitchery."
1860. W. Kelly, `Life in Victoria,' vol. i. p. 160 [Footnote]:
"The Pivot City is a sobriquet invented by the citizens to symbolize it as the point on which the fortunes of the colony would culminate and revolve. They also invented several other original terms—a phraseology christened by the Melbourne press as the Geelongese dialect."
1835. W. Yate, `Account of New Zealand,' p. 57:
"Piwakawaka, or tirakaraka. This restless little bird is continually on the wing, or hopping from twig to twig."
1855. Rev. R. Taylor, `Te Ika a Maui,' p. 403:
"Piwakawaka, tirakaraka, the fantailed fly-catcher, a pretty, restless, lively bird; very sociable, and fond of displaying its beautiful little fan-tail. It has a head like the bullfinch, with one black-and-white streak under the neck coming to a point in the centre of the throat. Wings very sharp and pointed. It is very quick and expert in catching flies, and is a great favourite, as it usually follows the steps of man. It was sacred to Maui."
1885. A. Reischek, `Transactions of the New Zealand Institute,' vol. xviii. art. xviii. p. 102:
"Rhipidura—fantail (Piwakawaka). Every one admires the two species of these fly-catchers, and their graceful evolutions in catching their prey."
1890. C. Colenso, `Transactions of the New Zealand Institute: Bush Notes,' vol. xxiii. art. lvii. p. 482:
"During this extended visit of mine to the woods, I have noticed the piwakawaka, or fly-catcher (Rhipidura flabellifera). This interesting little flycatcher, with its monotonous short cry, always seems to prefer making the acquaintance of man in the forest solitudes."
1895. W. S.Roberts, `Southland in 1856,' p. 53:
"The pied fantail, Piwakawaka (Rhipidura flabellifera) is the best flycatcher New Zealand possesses, but it will not live in confinement. It is always flitting about with broadly expanded tail in pursuit of flies. It frequently enters a house and soon clears a room of flies, but if shut in all night it frets itself to death before morning."
1824. Edward Curr, `Account of the Colony of Van Diemen's Land,' p. 55:
"The district called Macquarie Plains, the greater part of which rises into hills of moderate height, with open and fertile valleys interspersed, while the plains bear a strong resemblance to what are called sheep downs in England."
1848. T. L. Mitchell, `Tropical Australia,' p. 136:
"The country was grassy, and so open as almost to deserve the colonial name of `plain.'"
1873. A. Trollope, `Australia and New Zealand,' vol. i. p. 250:
"Squatters who look after their own runs always live in the bush, even though their sheep are pastured on plains."
1890. C. Lumholtz, `Among Cannibals,' p. 73:
"One day an egg of a cassowary was brought to me; this bird, although it is nearly akin to the ostrich and emu, does not, like the latter, frequent the open plains, but the thick brushwood. The Australian cassowary is found in Northern Queensland from Herbert river northwards, in all the large vine-scrubs on the banks of the rivers, and on the high mountains of the coasts."
1847. L. Leichhardt, `Overland Expedition,' p. 295:
"I found a great quantity of ripe Grewia seeds, and on eating many of them, it struck me that their slightly acidulous taste, if imparted to water, would make a very good drink; I therefore . . . boiled them for about an hour; the beverage . . . was the best we had tasted on our expedition."
1827. P. Cunningham, `Two Years in New South Wales,' vol. ii. p. 59:
"A number of the slang phrases current in St. Giles's Greek bid fair to become legitimatized in the dictionary of this colony: plant, swag, pulling up, and other epithets of the Tom and Jerry school, are established— the dross passing here as genuine, even among all ranks."
1848. Letter by Mrs. Perry, given in `Canon Goodman's Church in Victoria during the Episcopate of Bishop Perry,' p. 78:
". . . Shady Creek, where he `planted' some tea and sugar for his brother on his return. Do you know what `planting' is? It is hiding the tea, or whatever it may be, in the hollow of a tree, or branch, or stone, where no one is likely to find it, but the one for whom it is meant."
1855. G. C. Mundy, `Our Antipodes,' p. 22:
"Some refreshments planted there for us by the Major—for that is the colonial phrase, borrowed from the slang of London burglars and thieves, for any article sent forward or left behind for consumption in spots only indicated to those concerned—after the manner of the ca^ches of the French Canadian trappers on the American prairies. To `spring' a plant is to discover and pillage it."
1872. C. H. Eden, `My Wife and I in Queensland,' p. 36:
"The way he could hide, or, as it is called in the bush, `plant' himself, was something wonderful."
1889. Cassell's' Picturesque Australasia,' vol. iv. p. 178:
"The gold had not been handed over to the Commissioner at all, but was planted somewhere in the tent."
1893. `The Age,' May 9, p. 5, col. 4:
"A panic-smitten lady plants her money."
[Title of short article giving an account of an old lady during the bank panic concealing her money in the ground and being unable to find it.]
1892. M. C. Cooke, `Vegetable Wasps and Plant Worms,' p. 139:
"The New Zealanders' name for this plant-caterpillar is `Hotete,' `Aweto,' `Weri,' and `Anuhe.'. . The interior of the insect becomes completely filled by the inner plant, orthallus (mycelium): after which the growing head of the outer plant or fungus, passing to a state of maturity, usually forces its way out through the tissue of the joint between the head and the first segment of the thorax . . . it is stated that this caterpillar settles head upward to undergo its change, when the vegetable developes /sic/ itself."
1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Colonial Reformer,' c. xxv. p. 352:
"What's a little money . . . if your children grow up duffers [sc. cattle-duffers, q.v.] and planters?"
See Parrakeet and Rosella.
1802. G. Barrington, `History of New South Wales,' c. xi. p. 425:
"This animal, which has obtained the name of Ornithorhynchus paradoxus, is still very little known."
1802. D. Collins, `Account of English Colony in New South Wales,' vol. ii. p. 35:
[List of Engravings.] "Ornithorhynchus paradoxus."
[At p. 63]:
"Ornithorhynchus (an amphibious animal of the mole kind)."
1809. G. Shaw, `Zoological Lecturer,' vol. i. p. 78:
"This genus, which at present consists but of a single species and its supposed varieties, is distinguished by the title of Platypus or Ornithorhynchus. . . Its English generic name of duckbill is that by which it is commonly known."
1815. `History of New South Wales' (1818), p. 447:
"In the reaches or pools of the Campbell River, the very curious animal called the paradox, or watermole, is seen in great numbers."
1827. P. Cunningham, `Two Years in New South Wales,' vol. i. p. 325:
"I cannot omit to mention likewise the Ornithorynchus, that remarkable animal which forms a link between the bird and beast, having a bill like a duck and paws webbed similar to that bird, but legs and body like those of a quadruped, covered with thick coarse hair, with a broad tail to steer by."
1836. C. Darwin, `Naturalist's Voyage,' c. xix. p. 321:
"Had the good fortune to see several of the Ornithorhynchus paradoxus. . . . Certainly it is a most extraordinary animal; a stuffed specimen does not at all give a good idea of the appearance of the head and beak when fresh, the latter becoming hard and contracted."
1848. W. Westgarth, `Australia Felix,' p. 131:
"The specimen which has excited the greatest astonishment is the Ornithorynchus paradoxus, which, fitted by a series of contrivances to live equally well in both elements, unites in itself the habits and appearance of a bird, a quadruped, and a reptile."
1850. J. B. Clutterbuck, `Port Phillip in 1849,' p. 42:
"Platypus, water-mole or duckbill."
1860. G.Bennett, `Gatherings of a Naturalist,' p. 96:
"The Ornithorhynchus is known to the colonists by the nme of the watermole, from some resemblance which it is supposed to bear to the common European mole (Talpa Europoea, Linn.)"
1860. G. Bennett, `Gatherings of a Naturalist,' p. 95:
"When first a preserved skin was sent to England, it excited great distrust, being considered a fraud upon the naturalist. . . It was first described and figured by Shaw in the year 1799, in the `Naturalist's Miscellany,' vol. x., by the name of Platypus anatinus, or Duck-billed Platypus, and it was noticed in Collins's `New South Wales' 2nd ed. [should be vol. ii. not 2nd ed.], 4to. p. 62, 1802, where it is named Ornithorhyncus paradoxus, Blum. . . There is a rude figure given of this animal in Collins's work."
1884. Marcus Clarke, `Memorial Volume,' p. 177:
"The Platypus Club is in Camomile Street, and the Platypi are very haughty persons."
1890. `Victorian Statutes—the Game Act' (Third Schedule):
[Close Season.] "Platypus. The whole year."
1890. C. Lumholtz, `Among Cannibals,' p. 30:
"In the Dee river . . . I observed several times the remarkable platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) swimming rapidly about after the small water-insects and vegetable particles which constitute its food. It shows only a part of its back above water, and is so quick in its movements that it frequently dives under water before the shot can reach it."
1891. `Guide to Zoological Gardens, Melbourne':
"In the next division the platypus and its burrows are shown. These curious oviparous animals commence their long burrows under water, and work upwards into dry ground. The nest is constructed in a little chamber made of dry leaves and grass, and is very warm and comfortable; there is a second entrance on dry ground. The young are found in the months of September and October, but occasionally either a little earlier or later; generally two or three at a time."
1892. A. Sutherland, `Elementary Geography of British Colonies,' p. 273:
"The platypus is covered with fur like an otter, and has four webbed feet, like those of a duck, and a black duck-like bill. It makes a burrow in a river bank, but with an opening below the level of the water. It swims and dives in quiet shady river-bends, and disappears on hearing the least noise."
1894. R. Lydekker, `Marsupialia,' p. 233:
"The duck-bill was originally described under the name of Platypus anatinus, which was Anglicised into duck-billed platypus, but since the generic name [Platypus] had been previously employed for another group of animals, it had, by the rules of zoological nomenclature, to give place to the later Ornithorhynchus, although Shaw's specific name ofanatina still holds good. On these grounds it is likewise preferable to discard the Anglicised term Duck-billed Platypus in favour of the simpler Duck-bill or Duck-Mole."
[Mr. Lydekker is a scientific Englishman, who has not lived in Australia, and although the names of Duck-bill and Duck-mole are perhaps preferable for more exact scientific use, yet by long usage the name Platypus has become the ordinary vernacular name, and is the one by which the animal will always be known in Australian popular language.]
Black-breasted Plover—Sarciophorus pectoralis, Cuv.
Golden P.—Charadrius fulvus, Gmel.
Grey P.—C. helveticus, Linn.
Long-billed Stone P.—Esacus magnirostris, Geoff.
Masked P.—Lobivanellus personatus, Gould.
Spur-winged P.—Lobivanellus lobatus, Lath.
Stone P.—OEdicnemus grallarius, Lath.
And in New Zealand—Red-breasted Plover, Charadrius obscurus, Gmel. (Maori name, Tututuriwhata); Crook-billed, Anarhynchus frontalis, Quoy and Gaim. The authorities vary in the vernacular names and in the scientific classification. See also Sand-Plover and Wry-billed-Plover.
1889. J. H. Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p. 14:
"The fruits are of the size of a large plum and of a dark purple colour. They are eaten by the aboriginals."