"Kangaroo-steaks frying on the fire, with a piece of cold beef, and a wattle-bird pie also ready on the board."
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.'"
1864. E. F. Hughes, `Portland Bay,' p. 9:
"Tedious whistle of the Wattle-bird."
186. W. Howitt, `Discovery in Australia, vol. i. p. 111:
"This bird they called the Wattle-bird, and also the Poy-bird, from its having little tufts of curled hair under its throat, which they called poies, from the Otaheitan word for ear-rings. The sweetness of this bird's note they described as extraordinary, and that its flesh was delicious, but that it was a shame to kill it."
1885. J. Hood, `Land of Fern,' p. 36:
"The wattle-bird, with joyous scream
Bathes her soft plumage in the cooling stream."
1871. T. Bracken, `Behind the Tomb,' p. 79: