Part 110 (1/2)

<hw>Harrier</hw>, n English bird-naned in New Zealand to Circus gouldii, Bonap (also called Swamp-hawk), and in Australia to C assimilis, Jard and Selb, or C approximans, Bonap, called Spotted Harrier

1888 W L Buller, `Birds of New Zealand,' vol i p 206:

”Circus Gouldi, Bonap, New Zealand harrier, or Gould's harrier”

<hw>Hat, Black</hw>, n slang for a new ileat of Kooralbyn,' c xxviii p 277:

”Lord! if I were Mr Dyson Maddox, I'd never let it be said that a black hat had cut me out sweetheartin'”

1890 Rolf Boldrewood, `Colonial Reformer,' c iii p 21:

”A `black hat' in Australian parlance means a new arrival”

<hw>Hat, Old</hw> See Old-hat

<hw>Hatter</hw> (1) A solitary miner--miner orks without aunder his own hat

1869 Brough S Terms'):

”One orks alone He differs fros, or spends his ti abandoned washdirt

The hatter leads an independent life, and nearly always holds a claim under the bye-laws”

1884 R L ADavies, `Poeular rum old stick;he mostly works a `hatter'

He has worked with mates at times, and leaves theain He's a regular old ht,' p 37:

”Instead of having to take to fossicking like so many `hatters'

--solitary miners”

(2) By extension to other professions

1893 `The Herald' (Melbourne), Aug 28, p i col 7:

”He had been a burglar of the kind known a the criled `on his own hook,' never in a gang He had never, he told led with a companion”

<hw>Hatteria</hw>, n scientific na a Lizard peculiar to New Zealand, the only living representative of the order Rhynchocephalinae

See Tuatara

<hw>Hatting</hw>, quasi pres partic, solitary e,' Nov 25, p 6, col 7:

”Two old ullies”

<hw>Hat-tree</hw>, n naiven to a species of Sterculia, the Bottle-trees (qv)