Austral English Part 210
In New Zealand there is a single species, Coturnix novae-zelandiae, Quoy and Gaim.
1846. J. L. Stokes, `Discoveries in Australia,' vol. ii.
c. vii. p. 259:
"It is known to the colonists as the painted quail; and has been called by Mr. Gould ... Haemipodius melinatus."
1859. H. Kingsley, `Geoffrey Hamlyn,' p. 298:
"The painted quail, and the brush quail, the largest of Australian gamebirds, I believe, whirred away from beneath their horses' feet."
1862. H. C. Kendall, `Poems,' p. 67:
"The swamp fowl and timorous quail ...
Will start from their nests."
1889. Prof. Parker, `Catalogue of New Zealand Exhibition,'
p. 117:
"This group also is represented by a single species, the New Zealand quail (Coturnix Novae-Zelandiae), belonging to a widely distributed genus. It was formerly very abundant in New Zealand; but within the last fifteen or twenty years has been completely exterminated, and is now only known to exist on the Three Kings Island, north of Cape Maria Van Diemen."
.
See Hawk.
1882. T. H. Potts, `Out in the Open,' p. 37:
"In New Zealand the courageous family of the Raptores is very feebly represented; the honourable post of head of the family in all fairness must be a.s.signed to the falcon, which is commonly known by the name of the quail- or sparrow-hawk, not that it is identical with, or that it even bears much resemblance to, the bold robber of the woods of Great Britain--`the hardy sperhauke eke the quales foe,' as Chaucer has it."
.
In the Southern Colonies it is often called the Southern Quandong, and the tree is called the Native Peach-Tree (q.v.). The name is given to another large scrub-tree, Elaeocarpus grandis, F. v. M., N.O. Tiliaceae. The fruit, which is of a blue colour and is eaten by children, is also called the Native Peach.
1839. T. L. Mitch.e.l.l, `Three Expeditions,' p. 135:
"In all these scrubs on the Murray the Fusa.n.u.s ac.u.minatus is common, and produces the quandang nut (or kernel)."
1857. W. Howitt, `Tallangetta,' vol. i. p. 41:
"Abundance of fig, and medlar and quince trees, cherries, loquots, quondongs, gooseberry, strawberry, and raspberry trees."
1867. G. G. McCrae, `Balladeadro,' p. 10:
"Speed thee, Ganook, with these swift spears-- This firebrand weeping fiery tears, And take this quandang's double plum, 'Twill speak alliance tho' 'tis dumb."
1887. R. M. Praed, `Longleat of Kooralbyn,' c. xx. p. 199:
"They came upon a quantong-tree, and pausing beneath it, began to pick up the fallen fruit... . There were so many berries, each containing a shapely nut, that Honoria might string a dozen necklaces."
1890. Lyth, `Golden South,' c. ix. p. 79:
"I have forgotten to mention the quandong, a shrub bearing a fruit the size and colour of cherries."
(2) The fruit of this tree, and also its kernel.
1885. J. Hood, `Land of the Fern,' p. 53:
"She had gone to string on a necklet of seeds from the quongdong tree.'
1887. R. M. Praed, `Longleat of Kooralbyn,' c. xix.
p. 196:
"Miss Longleat was wild after quandongs."
[Footnote]: "A berry growing in the scrub, the kernels of which are strung into necklaces."
1888. D. Macdonald, `Gum Boughs,' p. 9:
"Another fruit of fraudulent type growing on the plains is the quandong. Something in shape and colour like a small crab-apple, it is fair enough to the eye, but in taste thoroughly insipid."
"
(q.v.) is now. The billy, having a lid and a wire handle by which to suspend it over the fire, superseded the quart-pot about 1851. In addition to the Billy, there is a Quart-pot still in use, especially in South Australia and the back-blocks. It has two sidehandles working in sockets, so as to fold down flat when travelling. The lid is an inverted pannikin fitted into it, and is used as a drinking-cup.
1881. A. C. Grant, `Bush Life in Queensland,' vol. i. p. 43:
"`Look out there!' he continued; `quart-pot corroborree,'
springing up and removing with one hand from the fire one of the quart-pots, which was boiling madly."
. Explained in quotations.
Cf. Billy-tea.
1878. Mrs. H. Jones, `Long Years in Australia,' p. 87:
"Ralph, taking a long draught of the quart-pot tea, p.r.o.nounced that nothing was ever like it made in teapots, and Ethel thought it excellent, excepting that the tea-leaves were troublesome."
188. H. Finch-Hatton, `Advance Australia, p. 111:
"`Quart-pot' tea, as tea made in the bush is always called, is really the proper way to make it... . The tea is really made with boiling water, which brings out its full flavour, and it is drunk before it has time to draw too much."
, unless the contrary be stated.
Although some of the following compound words may be used elsewhere, they are chiefly confined to Australia.
1871. C. L. Money, `Knocking About in New Zealand,' p. 21:
"Quartz is the mother of gold, and wherever there is an abundance of it, gold may reasonably be expected to exist somewhere in the neighbourhood."
1890. `The Argus,' June 16, p. 6. col. 1:
"Two runaway apprentices from a ship are said to have first crushed quartz."