<hw>Tropidorhynchus</hw>, <i>n</i>. scientific name of a genus of birds peculiar to Australia and New Guinea. The typical species has a knob on the bill, and the head and neck destitute of feathers. From Grk. <i>tropis</i>, the keel of a ship, and <i>rhunchos</i>, "beak." They are called <i>Friar Birds</i> (q.v.), and the generic name of <i>Tropidorhynchus</i> has been replaced by <i>Philemon</i> (q.v.).
<hw>Trout</hw>, <i>n</i>. The English Trout has been naturalised in Australia. In Tasmania, the name of <i>Trout</i>, or <i>Mountain-Trout</i>, is also given to species of the genus <i>Galaxias</i>. See <i>Salmon</i>.
<hw>Trumpeter</hw>, <i>n</i>. (1) A fish of Tasmanian, New Zealand, and Australian waters, but chiefly of Hobart— <i>Latris hecateia</i>, Richards., family <i>Cirrhitidae</i>, much esteemed as a food-fish, and weighing sometimes 50 or 60 lbs. The name is probably from the noise made by the fish when taken out of the water. The name was formerly given to a different fish in Western Australia. See also <i>Bastard-Trumpeter</i>, <i>Morwong</i>, and <i>Paper-fish</i>.
1834. M. Doyle, `Letters and Journals of G. F. Moore, Swan River Settlement,' p. 191:
"Many persons are trying to salt fish, which are very numerous in the river about and below Perth, as you must have seen by one of my letters, in which I mentioned our having taken 10,000 at one draught of the seine; these are of the kind called herrings, but do not look very like them; they make a noise when out of the water, and on that account are also called trumpeters."
1870. T. H. Braim, `New Homes,' vol. ii. p. 65:
"The finest kinds are the guard-fish of the mainland and the trumpeter of the Derwent in Tasmania."
1882. Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, `Fish of New South Wales,' p. 45:
"The first of these [Latris] is the genus of the well-known
`Hobart Town trumpeter,' a fish deservedly of high reputation."
(2) An obsolete name in Tasmania for the black <i>Crow-Shrike</i> (q.v.), <i>Strepera fuliginosa</i>, Gould.