1884. Marcus Clarke, `Memorial Volume,' p. 85:
"A burly free selector pitched his tent in my Home-Station paddock and turned my dam into a wash."
1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Colonial Reformer,' c. xii. p. 116:
"No, no; I've kept free-selectors out all these years, and as long as I live here I'll do so still."
<hw>Freezer</hw>, <i>n.</i> a sheep bred and raised in order that its mutton may be frozen and exported.
1893. J. Hotson, Lecture in `Age,' Nov.30, p. 7, col. 2:
"In the breeding of what are in New Zealand known as `freezers' there lies a ready means of largely increasing the returns from our land."
<hw>Fresh-water Herring</hw>, <i>n.</i> In Sydney, the fish is <i>Clupea richmondia</i>, Macl. Elsewhere in Australia, and in Tasmania, it is another name for the <i>Grayling</i> (q.v.).
<hw>Fresh-water Perch</hw>, <i>n.</i> name given in Tasmania to the fish <i>Microperca tasmaniae</i>.
<hw>Friar-bird</hw>, <i>n.</i> an Australian bird, of the genus called <i>Philemon</i>, but originally named <i>Tropidorhynchus</i> (q.v.). It is a honey-eater, and is also called <i>Poor Soldier</i> and other names; see quotation, 1848. The species are—