ly
contrasted colours, black and ferruginous, the latter of which
covers the back, forms a sharply-defined margin across the
shoulders, and sweeps over the wings in a manner suggestive of
saddle-flaps."

<hw>Sagg</hw>, <i>n</i>. the name given in Tasmania to the
plant <i>Xerotes longifolia</i>, R. Br., <i>N.O. Junceae</i>,
and also to the White Iris, <i>Diplarhena morcaea</i>.

<hw>Saliferous</hw>, <i>adj</i>. salt-bearing. See
<i>Salt-bush</i>. The word is used in geology in ordinary
English, but the botanical application is Australian.

1890. E. W. Hornung, `A Bride from the Bush,' p. 277:

"You have only to cover the desert with pale-green saliferous
bushes, no higher than a man's knee."

<hw>Sallee</hw>, <i>n</i>. aboriginal name for many varieties
of the <i>Acacia</i> (q.v.).

<hw>Sally</hw>, <hw>Sallow</hw>, <i>n</i>. corruptions of the
aboriginal word <i>Sallee</i> (q.v.). There are many
varieties, e.g. <i>Black-Sally</i>, <i>White-Sally</i>, etc.

<hw>Salmon</hw>, <i>n</i>. The English Salmon is being
acclimatised with difficulty in Tasmania and New Zealand;
the <i>Trout</i> more successfully. But in all Australian,
New Zealand, and Tasmanian waters there is a marine fish
which is called Salmon; it is not the true Salmon of the
Old World, but <i>Arripis salar</i>, Gunth., and called
in New Zealand by the Maori name <i>Kahawai</i>. The fish
is often called also <i>Salmon-Trout</i>. The young is
called <i>Samson-fish</i> (q.v.).

1798. D. Collins, `Account of the English Colony of New South
Wales,' p. 136:

[Sept. 1790.] "Near four thousand of a fish, named by us,
from its shape only, the Salmon, being taken at two hauls
of the seine. Each fish weighed on an average about five
pounds."

1845. E. J. Wakefield, `Adventures in New Zealand,' vol. i.
p. 93:

"The kawai has somewhat of the habits of the salmon, entering
during spring and summer into the bays, rivers, and fresh-water
creeks in large shoals."

1880. Guenther, `Study of Fishes,' p. 393:

"<i>Arripis salar</i>, South Australia. Three species are
known, from the coasts of Southern Australia and New Zealand.
They are named by the colonists Salmon or Trout, from their
elegant form and lively habits, and from the sport they afford
to the angler."

1882. Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, `Fish of New South Wales,'
p. 35:

"<i>Arripis salar</i>, Gunth., is in the adult state the salmon
of the Australian fishermen, and their salmon