"<i>Colluricincla Selbii</i>, Jard., Whistling Dick of the Colonists of Van Diemen's Land."
<hw>Whistling Duck</hw>, <i>n</i>. See <i>Duck</i>. The bird named below by Leichhardt appears to be a mistake; vide Gould's list at word <i>Duck</i>.
1847. L. Leichhardt, `Overland Expedition,' p. 287:
"The <i>Leptotarsis</i>, Gould (whistling duck), which habitually crowd close together on the water."
<hw>Whitebait</hw>, <i>n</i>. a fish; not, as in England, the fry of the herring and sprat, but in Victoria, <i>Engraulis antarcticus</i>, Castln.; and in New Zealand, the young fry of <i>Galaxias attenuatus</i>, Jenyns (<i>Inanga</i>, q.v.). The young of the <i>New Zealand Smelt</i> (q.v.), <i>Retropinna richardsonii</i>, Gill, are also called <i>Whitebait</i>, both in New Zealand and in Tasmania.
1882. Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, `Fish of New South Wales,' p. 85:
"Anchovies or <i>Engraulis</i> have a compressed body with a very wide lateral mouth, and a projecting upper jaw. Scales large. We have two species—<i>E. antarcticus</i>, Casteln., and <i>E. nasutus</i>, Casteln. The first-named species is by many erroneously believed to be identical, or at most a variety of <i>E. encrassicholus</i> of Europe. Count Castelnau states that it is very common in the Melbourne market at all seasons, and goes by the name of `whitebait.'"
1883. `Royal Commission on Fisheries of Tasmania, p. iv:
"<i>Retropinna Richardsonii</i>, whitebait or smelt. Captured in great abundance in the river Tamar, in the prawn nets, during the months of February and March, together with a species of <i>Atherina</i>, and <i>Galaxias attenuatus</i>, and are generally termed by fishermen whitebait. Dr. Guenther had formerly supposed that this species was confined to New Zealand; it appears, however, to be common to Australia and Tasmania."
<hw>Whitebeard</hw>, <i>n</i>. name applied to the plant <i>Styphelia ericoides</i>, <i>N.O. Epacrideae</i>.