shell money of the South Sea
Islands.

<hw>Waler</hw>, <i>n</i>. Anglo-Indian name for an Australian
horse imported from New South Wales into India, especially for
the cavalry. Afterwards used for any horse brought from
Australia.

1863. B. A. Heywood, `Vacation Tour at the Antipodes,' p. 134:

"Horses are exported largely from Australia to India even.
I have heard men from Bengal talk of the `Walers,' meaning
horses from New South Wales."

1866. G. 0. Trevelyan, `Dawk Bungalow,' p. 223 [Yule's
`Hobson Jobson']:

"Well, young Shaver, have you seen the horses? How is the
Waler's off fore-leg?"

1873. `Madras Mail,' June 25 [Yule's `Hobson Jobson']:

"For sale. A brown Waler gelding."

1888. R. Kipling, `Plain Tales from the Hills,' p. 224:

"The soul of the Regiment lives in the Drum-Horse who carries
the silver kettle-drums. He is nearly always a big piebald
Waler."

1896. `The Melburnian,' Aug. 28, p. 62:

"C. R. Gaunt is Senior Subaltern of the 4th (Royal Irish)
Dragoon Guards, at present stationed at Rawul Pindi in India.
He won the Regimental Cup Steeplechase this year on an
Australian mare of his own. Australian horses are called
`Walers' in India, from the circumstance of their being
generally imported from New South Wales."

<hw>Walking-Leaf</hw>, <i>n</i>. See <i>Phasmid</i>.

<hw>Walking-stick</hw>, <i>n</i>. See <i>Phasmid</i>.

<hw>Walking-stick Palm</hw>, <i>n</i>. See under <i>Palm</i>.

<hw>Wallaby</hw>, <i>n</i>. a name used for the smaller kinds
of Kangaroos of the genus <i>Macropus</i> (q.v.), formerly
classed as <i>Halmaturus</i>. An aboriginal word. See
Collins, 1798, below. (<i>Wolbai</i>, in the Kabi dialect of
South Queensland, means a young creature.) Also spelt
<i>Walloby, Wallabee</i>, and <i>Wallobi</i>. As in the case
of <i>Kangaroo</i> (q.v.), the plural is a little uncertain,
<i>Wallaby</i> or <i>Wallabies</i>. Some of them are sometimes
called <i>Brush-Kangaroos</i> (q.v.). The following are the
species--

Agile Wallaby--
<i>Macropus agilis</i>, Gould.

Aru Island W.--
<i>M. brunnii</i>, Schraeber.

Black-gloved W.--
<i>M. irma</i>, Jourd.

Black-striped W.--
<i>M. dorsalis</i>, Gray.

Black-tailed W.--
<i>M. ualabatus</i>, Less. and Garm.

Branded W.--
<i>M. stigmaticus</i>, Gould.

Cape York W.--
<i>M. coxeni</i>, Gray.

Dama W.--
<i>M. eugenii</i>, Desm.

Pademelon--
<i>M. thetidis</i>, Less.

Parma W.--
<i>M.