ngs to the Sydney
fish-market.

<hw>Select</hw>, v. i.q. <i>Free-select</i> (q.v.).

<hw>Selection</hw>, <i>n</i>. i.q. <i>Free-selection</i>
(q.v.).

<hw>Selector</hw>, <i>n</i>. i.q. <i>Free-selector</i> (q.v.).

<hw>Sergeant Baker</hw>, <i>n</i>. name given to a fish of New
South Wales, <i>Aulopus purpurissatus</i>, Richards., family
<i>Scopelidae</i>.

1882. Rev. J E. Tenison-Woods, `Fish of New South Wales,'
p. 82:

"The Sergeant Baker in all probability got its local
appellation in the early history of the colony (New South
Wales), as it was called after a sergeant of that name in one
of the first detachments of a regiment; so were also two fruits
of the Geebong tribe (<i>Persoonia</i>); one was called Major
Buller, and the other Major Groce, and this latter again
further corrupted into Major Grocer."

<hw>Settler's</hw> Clock (also <hw>Hawkesbury Clock</hw>),
<i>n</i>. another name for the bird called the
<i>Laughing-Jackass</i>. See <i>Jackass</i>.

1896. F. G. Aflalo, `Natural History of Australia,' p. 114:

"From its habit of starting its discordant paean somewhere near
sunrise and, after keeping comparatively quiet all through the
hotter hours, cackling a `requiem to the day's decline,' the
bird has been called the <i>Settler's</i> clock. It may be
remarked, however, that this by no means takes place with the
methodical precision that romancers write of in their letters
home."

<hw>Settlers' Matches</hw>, <i>n</i>. name occasionally applied
to the long pendulous strips of bark which hang from the
Eucalypts and other trees, during decortication, and which,
bec oming exceedingly dry, are readily ignited and used as
kindling wood.

1896. H. Lawson, `When the World was Wide,' p. 84:

"In the silence of the darkness and the playing of the breeze,
That we heard the settlers' matches rustle softly in the
trees."

1896. `The Australasian,' June 13, p. 1133, col. 1:

"<i>Re</i> settlers' matches, torches, the blacks in the
South-east of South Australia always used the bark of the
she-oak to carry from one camp to another; it would last and
keep alight for a long time and show a good light to travel by
when they had no fire. A fire could always be lighted with two
grass trees, a small fork, and a bit of dry grass. I have
often started a fire with them myself."

<hw>Settler's Twine</hw>, <i>n</i>. a fibre plant,
<i>Gymnostachys anceps</i>, R. Br., <i>N.O. Aroideae</i>,
called also <