ena pecuda</i>, family
<i>Sphyraenidae</i>. In Australia and New Zealand it is
applied to a smaller edible fish, <i>Thyrsites atun</i>,
Cuv. and Val., family <i>Trichiuridae</i>, called <i>Snook</i>
(q.v.) at the Cape of Good Hope. It is found from the Cape of
Good Hope to New Zealand.

1845. `Voyage to Port Philip,' p. 40:

"We hook the barracuda fish."

1882. Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, `Fishes of New South Wales,'
p. 69:

"<i>Sphyrenidae</i>. The first family is the barracudas, or
sea-pike." [Footnote]: "This name is no doubt the same as
Barracouta and is of Spanish origin. The application of it to
<i>Thyrsites atun</i> in the Southern seas was founded on some
fancied resemblance to the West Indian fish, which originally
bore the name, though of course they are entirely different."

(2) The word is used as a nickname for an inhabitant of Hobart;
compare <i>Cornstalk</i>.

<hw>Barramunda</hw>, <i>n</i>. a fish, i.q. <i>Burramundi</i>
(q.v.).

<hw>Basket-Fence</hw>, <i>n.</i> Local name for a stake-hedge.
See quotation.

1872. G. S. Baden-Powell, `New Homes for the Old Country,' p. 208:

"For sheep, too, is made the `basket fence.' Stakes are driven
in, and their pliant `stuff' interwoven, as in a stake hedge in
England."

<hw>Bastard Dory</hw> and <hw>John Dory</hw> (q.v.), spelt also
<HW>Dorey</HW>, <i>n</i>. an Australian fish, <i>Cyttus australis</i>,
family <i>Cyttidae</i>; the Australian representative of
<i>Zeus faber</i>, the European "John Dory," and its close
relative, is called <i>Bastard Dorey</i> in New Zealand, and
also <i>Boar-fish</i> (q.v.).

1880. Guenther, `Study of Fishes,' p. 387:

"<i>Histiopterus</i>. . . .The species figured attains to a
length of twenty inches, and is esteemed as food. It is known
at Melbourne by the names of `Boar-fish' or `Bastard Dorey'
(fig.), <i>Histiopterus recurvirostris</i>."

<hw>Bastard Trumpeter</hw>, <i>n</i>. a fish. See <i>Morwong,
Paper-fish</i>, and <i>Trumpeter</i>. In Sydney it is
<i>Latris ciliaris</i>, Forst., which is called <i>Moki</i> in
New Zealand; in Victoria and Tasmania, <i>L. forsteri</i>,
Casteln.

1883. `Royal Commission on the Fisheries of Tasmania,' p. 35:

"The bastard trumpeter (<i>Latris Forsteri</i>). . . .Scarcely
inferior to the real trumpeter, and superior to it in abundance
all the year round, comes the bastard trumpeter. . . This fish
has hitherto been confounded with <i>Latris ciliaris</i>
(Forst.)