Austral English Part 270

1848. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol. iv.:

Plate

Climacteris scandens, Temm., Brown Tree-creeper . 93

C. rufa, Gould, Rufous T. . . . . . . . . 94

C. erythrops, Gould, Red-eyebrowed T. . . . . 95

C. melanotus, Gould, Black-backed T. . . . . 96

C. melanura, Gould, Black-tailed T. . . . . . 97

C. picumnus, Temm., Whitethroated T. . . . . 98

Tree-fern, n. See Fern-tree.

Tree-Kangaroo, called Boongary (q.v.) by the aboriginals. See Dendrolagus and Kangaroo.

Tree-Runner, n. another name for the Sittella (q.v.). The species are--

Black-capped Tree-Runner-- Sittella pileata, Gould.

Orange-winged T.-- S. chrysoptera, Lath.

Pied T.-- S. albata, Ramsay.

Slender-billed T.-- S. tenuirostris, Gould.

Striated T.-- S. striata, Gould.

White-headed T.-- S. leucocephala, Gould.

White-winged T.-- S. leucoptera, Gould.

But see Gould's earlier (1848), under Sittella.

Tree-Tit, n. The word tit is terminally applied to many little English birds. In Australia, this new compound has been adopted for the two species, Short-billed Tree-tit, Smicrornis brevirostris, Gould, and Yellow-tinted Tit, S. flavescens, Gould.

Tremandra, n. scientific name of a genus of Australian plants, the Purple Heath-flower. Name given by R. Brown in 1814, from the remarkably tremulous anthers.

(Lat. tremere, to tremble, and Grk. 'anaer, 'andros a man, taken as equivalent to "anther.")

Trevally, or Trevalli, or Trevalla, or Travale, n. an Australian fish.

In various localities the name is applied to several fishes, which are most of them of the family Carangidae, or Horse-Mackerels. An Old-World name for the Horse-Mackerels is Cavalli (Ital. cavallo, a little horse). Trevalli is sometimes called Cavalli; this was probably its original name in Australia, and Trevalli a later corruption.

The different kinds are--

Black Trevally-- Teuthis nebulosa, Quoy, family Teuthididae (a New South Wales fish).

Mackerel T. (so called in Tasmania)-- Neptonemus dobula, Gunth., family Carangidae.

Silver T.-- Another Tasmanian name for the White Trevally, Caranx georgianus (see below).

Snotgall T.-- Neptonemus travale, Casteln. (in Victoria); N. brama, Gunth. in Tasmania); both of the family of Carangidae.

White T.-- Caranx georgianus, Cuv. and Val., family Carangidae; (so called in New South Wales, New Zealand, and Tasmania; in Victoria it is called Silver Bream).

Teuthis javus, Linn., family Tuethididae.

The Maori name for the Trevally is Awara, and in Auckland it is sometimes called the Yellow-Tail (q.v.). See also quotation, 1886.

Guenther says, the genus Teuthis is readily recognised by the peculiar structure of the ventral fins, which have an outer and an inner spine and three soft rays between.

1769. `Capt. Cook's Journal' (edition Wharton, 1893), p. 164:

"Several canoes came off to the ship, and two or three of them sold us some fish--cavallys as they are called--which occasioned my giving the Islands the same name."

1886. R. A. Sherrin, `Fishes of New Zealand,' p. 99:

"Dr. Hector says: `The trevalli is the arara of the Maoris, or the trevalli or cavalli of the fishermen ... In Auckland it is sometimes called the yellow-tail, but this name appears to be also used for the king-fish. The fish known as trevalli in the Dunedin market is a different fish, allied to the warehou.'"

1890. `Victorian Statutes--Fisheries Act' (Second Schedule):

"Travale."

Triantelope, n. a European comic variation of the scientific name Tarantula. It is applied in Australia to a spider belonging to a quite different genus, Voconia, a perfectly harmless spider, though popularly supposed to be poisonous. It has powerful mandibles, but will attack nobody unless itself attacked.

1846. C. P. Hodgson, `Reminiscences of Australia,' p. 173:

"The tarantulas, or `triantelopes,' as the men call them, are large, ugly spiders, very venomous."

1860. A Lady, `My Experiences in Australia,' p. 151:

"There is no lack of spiders either, of all sorts and sizes, up to the large tarantula, or tri-antelope, as the common people persist in calling it."

Tribonyx, n. There are several species of this bird in Australia and Tasmania, where they go by the name of Native Hen, and sometimes, erroneously, Moor-hen (q.v.). For the species, see Native Hen. No species of Tribonyx has been found wild in New Zealand, though other birds have been mistaken for the genus.

1888. W. L. Buller, `Birds of New Zealand,' vol. i.

(Introd.), p. xiv:

"I ought perhaps here to refer to a species mentioned in the former Introduction as a newly discovered addition to the New Zealand Avifauna, but now omitted from the list ..."

Ibid. p. liv:

"Tribonyx has never actually occurred in a wild state [in New Zealand]."

Ibid. p. 90:

"Tribonyx, a bird incapable of flight, but admirably adapted for running."