ter-Perch</hw>, <i>n</i>. i.q. <i>Mado</i> (q.v.).

<hw>Trumpeter-Whiting</hw>, <i>n</i>. See <i>Whiting</i>,
quotation 1882.

<hw>Tuan</hw>, <i>n</i>. aboriginal name for the
<i>Flying-Squirrel</i> (q.v.). See also <i>Pongo</i>.

1846. G. H. Haydon, `Five Years in Australia Felix,' p. 57:

"The flying-squirrel, or tuan, is much sought after for its
fine fur; of these there are two kinds, a large one of a dark
colour, only found 1n the mountains; and a smaller description
found in all parts of the colony, and better known by the
native name, tuan."

1859. H. Kingsley, `Geoffrey Hamlyn,' p. 274:

"The Touan, the little grey flying-squirrel, only begins to fly
about at night, and slides down from his bough sudden and
sharp."

<hw>Tuatara</hw>, <i>n</i>. the Maori name of a New Zealand
lizard, or reptile, <i>Hatteria punctata</i>, Gray; called
also <i>Sphenodon puntatum</i>.

1820. `Grammar and Vocabulary of Language of New Zealand'
(Church Missionary Society), p. 218:

"Tua tira, a species of lizard."

1863. `Mahoe Leaves,' p. 47:

"A small boy of a most precocious nature, who was termed `tua
tara,' from a horrid sort of lizard that the natives abhor."

1890. `Catalogue of New Zealand Exhibition':

"The Tuatara is the largest existing New Zealand reptile. It
is closely allied to the Lizards; but on account of certain
peculiarities of structure, some of which tend to connect it
with the Crocodiles, is placed by Dr. Guenther in a separate
order (<i>Rhynchocephalina</i>)."

<hw>Tucker</hw>, <i>n</i>. Australian slang for food.
<i>To tuck in</i> is provincial English for to eat, and
<i>tuck</i> is a school-boy word for food, especially what
is bought at a pastrycook's. <i>To make tucker</i> means
to earn merely enough to pay for food.

1874. Garnet Walch, `Head over Heels,' p. 73:

"For want of more nourishing tucker,
I believe they'd have eaten him."

1875. Wood and Lapham, `Waiting for the Mail,' p. 33:

"We heard of big nuggets, but only made tucker."

1890. `The Argus,' June 14, p. 14, col. 1:

"When a travelling man sees a hut ahead, he knows there's water
inside, and tucker and tea."

1891. Rolf Boldrewood, `A Sydney-side Saxon,' p. 83:

"I took my meal in the hut, but we'd both the same kind of
tucker."

<hw>Tui</hw>, <i>n</i>. Maori name for the New Zealand bird,
<i>Prosthemadera novae-zelandae</i>, Gray; called the
<i>Parson-bird</i> (q.v.), and earlier the <i>Poe</i>