<hw>Podargus</hw>, <i>n</i>. scientific name of a genus of Australian birds, called the <i>Frogsmouth</i> (q.v.) and <i>Mopoke</i>. From Grk. <i>podargos</i>, swift or white-footed. (Hector's horse in the `Iliad' was named Podargus.—`Il.' viii. 185.)
1890. `Victorian Statutes-Game Act' (Third Schedule):
[Close Season.] "Podargus or Mopokes, the whole year."
<hw>Poddly</hw>, <i>n</i>. a New Zealand and Australian fish, <i>Sebastes percoides</i>, Richards.; called in Victoria <i>Red-Gurnet Perch</i>. The name is applied in England to a different fish.
1872. Hutton and Hector, `Fishes of New Zealand,' p. 108:
"The pohuia-karou is the proper sea-perch of these waters, that name having been applied by mistake to a small wrasse, which is generally called the spotty or poddly."
<hw>Poddy</hw>, <i>n</i>. a Victorian name for the <i>Sand-Mullet</i>. See <i>Mullet</i>.
<hw>Poe</hw>, <i>n</i>. same as <i>Tui</i> (q.v.) and <i>Parson-bird</i> (q.v.). The name, which was not the Maori name, did not endure.
17]7. Cook's' Voyage towards the South Pole and round the World' [2nd Voyage], vol. i. pp. 97, 98:
"Amongst the small birds I must not omit to particularise the wattlebird, poy-bird. . . . The poy-bird is less than the wattle-bird; the feathers of a fine mazarine blue, except those of its neck, which are of a most beautiful silver-grey. . . . Under its throat hang two little tufts of curled snow-white feathers, called its poies, which being the Otaheitean word for ear-rings occasioned our giving that name to the bird, which is not more remarkable for the beauty of its plumage than for the sweetness of its note."