1880. W. Senior, `Travel and Trout,' p. 93:
"These must be the long-looked-for cucumber mullet, or fresh- water herring. . . . `The cucumber mullet,' I explain, `I have long suspected to be a grayling.'"
1882. Rev._I. E. Tenison-Woods, `Fish of New South Wales,' p. 109:
"Though not a fish of New South Wales, it may be as well to mention here the Australian grayling, which in character, habits, and the manner of its capture is almost identical with the English fish of that name. In shape there is some difference between the two fish. . . . A newly caught fish smells exactly like a dish of fresh-sliced cucumber. It is widely distributed in Victoria, and very abundant in all the fresh-water streams of Tasmania. . . . In Melbourne it goes by the name of the Yarra herring. There is another species in New Zealand."
1889. Cassell's `Picturesque Australasia,' vol. iv. p. 206:
"The river abounds in delicious grayling or cucumber fish, rather absurdly designated the `herring' in this [Deloraine] and some other parts of the colony [Tasmania]."
<hw>Grebe</hw>, <i>n.</i> common English bird-name, of the genus <i>Podiceps</i>. The species known in Australia are—
Black-throated Grebe—
<i>Podiceps novae-hollandiae</i>, Gould.
Hoary-headed G.—
<i>P. nestor</i>, Gould.
Tippet G.—
<i>P. cristataes</i>, Linn.