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

Orange-winged T.—
<i>S. chrysoptera</i>, Lath.

Pied T.—
<i>S. albata</i>, Ramsay.

Slender-billed T.—
<i>S. tenuirostris</i>, Gould.

Striated T.—
<i>S. striata</i>, Gould.

White-headed T.—
<i>S. leucocephala</i>, Gould.

White-winged T.—
<i>S. leucoptera</i>, Gould.

But see Gould's earlier (1848), under <i>Sittella</i>.

<hw>Tree-Tit</hw>, <i>n</i>. 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, <i>Smicrornis brevirostris</i>, Gould, and Yellow-tinted Tit, <i>S. flavescens</i>, Gould.

<hw>Tremandra</hw>, <i>n</i>. scientific name of a genus of Australian plants, the <i>Purple Heath-flower</i>. Name given by R. Brown in 1814, from the remarkably tremulous anthers. (Lat. <i>tremere</i>, to tremble, and Grk. <i>'anaer</i>, <i>'andros</i> a man, taken as equivalent to "anther.")

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