Austral English / A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia

by Edward Ellis Morris

Red-rumped T.—
<i>A. pyrrhopygia</i>, Gould.

Scaly-breasted T.—
<i>A. squamata</i>, De Vis.

Scrub T.—
<i>Sericornis magna</i>, Gould.

Striated T.—
<i>Acanthiza lineata</i>, Gould.

Tasmanian T.—
<i>A. diemenensis</i>, Gould; called also <i>Brown-tail</i>.

Yellow-rumped T.—
<i>Geobasileus chrysorrhoea</i>, Quoy and Gaim.

See also <i>Tree-tit</i>.

<hw>Tit-fish</hw>, <i>n</i>. a name given in North Australia to the Sea-slug, or Trepang; because the appearance of its tentacles suggests the teat of a cow.

1880. Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, `Proceedings of the Linnaean Society of New South Wales,' vol. v. pt. ii. p. 128:

"G. F. Jaeger, in 1833, . . . enumerates four [species of <i>Trepang</i>), viz. <i>Trepang edulis</i>, <i>T. ananas</i>, <i>T. impatiens</i> and <i>T. peruviana</i>. The first of these is certainly found on the reefs, and is called by the fishermen `redfish.' . . . Next to this is the `tit-fish' . . . studded with somewhat distant large tentacles, which project nearly an inch or so."