1854. G. H. Haydon, `The Australian Emigrant,' p. 59:
"It was a red ant, upwards of an inch in length—`that's a soldier, and he prods hard too.'"
1865. W. Howitt, `Discovery in Australia,' vol. ii. p. 308:
"The pain caused by a wound from this grass-seed is exactly like that from the bite of a soldier-ant."
<hw>Soldier-bird</hw>, or <hw>Poor Soldier</hw>, or <hw>Old-Soldier bird</hw>, <i>n</i>. another name for the <i>Friar-bird</i> (q.v.).
1859. D. Bunce, `Australasiatic Reminiscences,' p. 62:
"The notes peculiar to the <i>Ornithorhynchus paradoxus</i>, or <i>platypus</i>, wattle-bird, and leather-head, or old soldier bird, added in no small degree to the novelties. . . . The wattle-bird has been not inaptly termed the `what's o'clock,'—the leather-head the `stop where-you-are.'"
[Mr. Bunce's observations are curiously confused. The `Soldier-bird' is also called `Four o'clock,' but it is difficult to say what `wattle bird' is called `what's o'clock'; the `notes' of the platypus must be indeed `peculiar.']
1896. Mrs. Langloh Parker, `Australian Legendary Tales,' p. 108 [Title of Tale]:
"Deegeenboyah the Soldier-bird."