om
the aborigines.

1830. `Hobart Town Almanack,' p. 112:

"Which he cooked in the mode called in colonial phrase a
sticker up. A straight twig being cut as a spit, the slices
were strung upon it, and laid across two forked sticks leaning
towards the fire."

1852. Mrs. Meredith, `My Home in Tasmania,' vol. i. p. 55:

"Here I was first initiated into the bush art of `sticker-up'
cookery . . . the orthodox material here is of course kangaroo,
a piece of which is divided nicely into cutlets two or three
inches broad and a third of an inch thick. The next requisite
is a straight clean stick, about four feet long, sharpened at
both ends. On the narrow part of this, for the space of a foot
or more, the cutlets are spitted at intervals, and on the end
is placed a piece of delicately rosy fat bacon. The strong end
of the stick-spit is now stuck fast and erect in the ground,
close by the fire, to leeward; care being taken that it does
not burn." ". . . to men that are hungry, stuck-up kangaroo
and bacon are very good eating." . . . "our `sticker-up'
consisted only of ham."

1862. G. T. Lloyd, `Thirty-three Years in Tasmania and
Victoria,' p. 103:

"Pounds of rosy steaks . . . skilfully rigged after the usual
approved fashion (termed in Bush parlance a sticker-up'),
before the brilliant wood fire, soon sent forth odours most
grateful to the hungered way-worn Bushmen."

<hw>Stilt</hw>, <i>n</i>. English bird-name. In New Zealand,
the species are--

The Black Stilt--
<i>Himantopus novae-zelandiae</i>, Gould; Maori name,
<i>Kaki</i>.

Pied S., or Whiteheaded S.--
<i>H. leucocephalus</i>, Gould; Maori name, <i>Tutumata</i>.

White-necked S.--
<i>H. albicollis</i>, Buller.

<i>H. leucocephalus</i> (the <i>White-headed Stilt</i>)
is also present in Australia, and the world-wide species,
<i>H. pectoralis</i>, Du Bus. (the Banded Stilt), is found
through all Australasia.

<hw>Stingareeing</hw>, <i>n</i>. the sport of catching
<i>Stingrays</i>, or <i>Stingarees</i>.

1872. Hutton and Hector, `Fishes of New Zealand,' p. 121:

"It has been recently discovered by the writer of the animated
article in the `Field' on Fishing in New Zealand [London, Nov.
25, 1871], that `stingareeing' can be made to afford sport of
a most exciting kind."

<hw>Stinging-tree</hw>, <i>n</i>. a Queensland name
for the <i>Giant Nettle</i>, or <i>Nettle-tree</i> (q.v.)

1890. A. J. Vogan, `The Black Police,' p. 209:

"The