edith, `Tasmanian Friends and Foes,' p. 110:

"You have heard of . . . the laughing jackass. We, too, have
a `jackass,' a smaller bird, and not in any way remarkable,
except for its merry gabbling sort of song, which when several
pipe up together, always gives one the idea of a party of very
talkative people all chattering against time, and all at once."

<hw>Jack-bird</hw>, <i>n</i>. a bird of the South Island of New
Zealand, <i>Creadion cinereus</i>, Buller. See also
<i>Saddle-back</i> and <i>Creadion</i>.

1888. W. L. Buller, `Birds of New Zealand,' vol. i. p. 23:

"It has become the habit to speak of this bird as the Brown
Saddle-back; but this is a misnomer, inasmuch as the absence of
the `saddle' is its distinguishing feature. I have accordingly
adopted the name of Jack-bird, by which it is known among the
settlers in the South Island. Why it should be so called I
cannot say, unless this is an adaptation of the native name
<i>Tieke</i>, the same word being the equivalent, in the Maori
vernacular, of our Jack."

<hw>Jack Shay</hw>, or Jackshea, <i>n</i>. a tin quart-pot.

1881. A. C. Grant, `Bush Life in Queensland,' vol. i. p. 209:

"Hobbles and Jack Shays hang from the saddle dees."

[Footnote]: "A tin quart-pot, used for boiling water for tea,
and contrived so as to hold within it a tin pint-pot."

1890. `The Argus,' June14, p. 4, col. 1:

"Some of his clothes, with his saddle, serve for a pillow; his
ration bags are beside his head, and his jackshea (quart-pot)
stands by the fire."

<hw>Jacky Winter</hw>, <i>n</i>. the vernacular name in New
South Wales of the Brown Flycatcher, <i>Microeca fascinans</i>,
a common little bird about Sydney. The name has been ascribed
to the fact that it is a resident species, very common, and
that it sings all through the winter, when nearly every other
species is silent. See Flycatcher.

<hw>Jade</hw>, <i>n</i>. See <i>Greenstone</i>.

<hw>Jarrah</hw>, <i>n</i>. anglicised form of <i>Jerryhl</i>,
the native name of a certain species of Eucalyptus, which grows
in the south of Western Australia, east and south-east of
Perth. In Sir George Grey's Glossary (1840), Djar-rail;
Mr. G. F. Moore's (1884), Djarryl. (<i>Eucalyptus
marginata</i>, Donn.) The name <i>Bastard-Jarrah</i> is given
to <i>E. botryoides</i>, Smith, which bears many other names.
It is the <i>Blue-Gum</i> of New South Wales coast-districts,
the <i>Bastard-Mahogany</i> of Gippsland an