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<hw>Whistling dick</hw>, n Tasmanian name for a Shrike-Thrush Called also Duke- willy

1848 J Gould, `Birds of Australia,'vol ii pl 77:

”Colluricincla Selbii, Jard, Whistling dick of the Colonists of Van Die Duck</hw>, n See Duck The bird named below by Leichhardt appears to be a mistake; vide Gould's list at word Duck

1847 L Leichhardt, `Overland Expedition,' p 287:

”The Leptotarsis, Gould (whistling duck), which habitually crowd close together on the water”

<hw>Whitebait</hw>, n a fish; not, as in England, the fry of the herring and sprat, but in Victoria, Engraulis antarcticus, Castln; and in New Zealand, the young fry of Galaxias attenuatus, Jenyns (Inanga, qv)

The young of the New Zealand Smelt (qv), Retropinna richardsonii, Gill, are also called Whitebait, both in New Zealand and in Tasmania

1882 Rev J E Tenison-Woods, `Fish of New South Wales,'

p 85:

”Anchovies or Engraulis have a co upper jaw Scales large We have two species--E antarcticus, Casteln, and E nasutus, Casteln The first-named species is by many erroneously believed to be identical, or at most a variety of E encrassicholus of Europe Count Castelnau states that it is very cooes by the name of `whitebait'”

1883 `Royal Commission on Fisheries of Tasmania, p iv:

”Retropinna Richardsonii, whitebait or sreat abundance in the river Ta the ether with a species of Atherina, and Galaxias attenuatus, and are generally termed by fishermen whitebait Dr Guenther had formerly supposed that this species was confined to New Zealand; it appears, however, to be common to Australia and Tasmania”

<hw>Whitebeard</hw>, n name applied to the plant Styphelia ericoides, NO Epacrideae

<hw>White-Eye</hw>, n another name for the bird called variously Silver-Eye, Wax-Eye, Blight-Bird, etc, Zosterops (qv)

1848 J Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol iv pl 81:

”Zosterops Dorsalis, Vig and Horsf, Grey-backed Zosterops; White-eye, Colonists of New South Wales”

1896 `The Australasian,' Nov 14, p 461:

”The unique ration on the part of the white-eyes has not been satisfactorily accounted for One authority invents the ingenious theory that the original white-eyes went to New Zealand after the memorable `Black Thursday' of Australia in 1851”

<hw>White-face</hw>, n a name applied to the Australian bird, Xerophila leucopsis, Gould Another species is the Chestnut-breasted White face, X pectoralis, Gould

<hw>White Gallinule</hw>, n one of the birds of the family called Rails The White Gallinule was recorded from New South Wales in 1890, and also from Lord Howe Island, off the coast, and from Norfolk Island The modern opinion is that it never existed save in these two islands, and that it is now extinct It was a bird of liht, akin to the New Zealand bird, Notornisextinction Only two skins of the White Gallinule are known to be in existence

1789 Governor Phillip,' Voyage to Botany Bay,' p 273 and fig:

”White Gallinule This beautiful bird greatly resembles the purple Gallinule in shape and hill fowlThis species is pretty common on Lord Howe's Island, Norfolk Island, and other places, and is a very tas of the Linnaean Society of New South Wales,' p 86:

”The attention of some of our early Naturalists was drawn to this Island by finding there, the now extinct `White Gallinule,' then called (Fulica alba), but which proves to be a species of Notornis”

<hw>White-head</hw>, n a bird of New Zealand, clitonyx albicapilla, Buller Found in North Island, but beco very rare See clitonyx

<hw>White-lipped Snake</hw>, n See under Snake