of lofty trees, calling `Poor Soldier,' `Pimlico,'
`Four o'clock,' and uttering screaming sounds. It feeds upon
insects, wild fruits, and any sweets it can procure from the
flowers of the Banksia and Gum-trees."

<hw>Leather-Jacket</hw>, <i>n</i>.

(1) A name applied popularly and somewhat confusedly to various
trees, on account of the toughness of their bark--
(a) <i>Eucalyptus punctata</i>, De C., Hickory Eucalypt (q.v.);
(b) <i>Alphitonia excelsa</i>, Reiss., or Cooperswood;
(c) <i>Ceratopetalum</i>, or Coachwood;
(d) <i>Cryptocarya meissnerii</i>, F. v. M.;
(e) <i>Weinmannia benthami</i>, F. v. M.

(2) A fish of the family <i>Sclerodermi</i>, <i>Monacanthus
ayraudi</i>, Quoy. and Gaim., and numerous other species of
<i>Monocanthus</i>. Leather-Jackets are wide-spread in
Australian seas. The name is given elsewhere to other fishes.
See <i>File-fish</i> and <i>Pig-fish</i>.

1770. `Capt. Cook's Journal,' edition Wharton, 1893, p. 246:

"They had caught a great number of small fish, which the
sailors call leather jackets, on account of their having
a very thick skin; they are known in the West Indies."

1773. `Hawkesworth's Voyages,' vol. iii. p. 503--'Cook's
First Voyage,' May 4, 1770 (at Botany Bay):

"Small fish, which are well known in the West Indies, and
which our sailors call Leather jackets, because their skin
is remarkably thick."

1789. W. Tench, `Expedition to Botany Bay, p. 129:

"To this may be added bass, mullets, skaits, soles,
leather-jackets, and many other species."

(3) A kind of pancake.

1846. G. H. Haydon, `Five Years in Australia Felix,' p. 151:

"A plentiful supply of `leatherjackets' (dough fried in a
pan)."

1853. Mossman and Banister, `Australia Visited and Revisited,'
p. 126:

"Our party, upon this occasion, indulged themselves, in
addition to the usual bush fare, with what are called `Leather
jackets,' an Australian bush term for a thin cake made of
dough, and put into a pan to bake with some fat. . . The
Americans indulge in this kind of bread, giving them the name
of `Puff ballooners,' the only difference being that they place
the cake upon the bare coals . . ."

1855. R. Howitt, `Two Years in Victoria,' vol. i. p. 117:

"The leather-jacket is a cake of mere flour and water, raised
with tartaric acid and carbonate of soda instead of yeast, and
baked in the frying-pan; and is equal to any muffin you can
buy in the London shops."

<hw>Leather-wood</hw>,