trumpeter

n.

1) A fish of Tasmanian,New Zealand, and Australian waters, but chiefly of Hobart – – Latris hecateia, Richards., family Cirrhitidae,much esteemed as a food-fish, and weighing sometimes 50 or 60lbs. The name is probably from the noise made by the fish whentaken out of the water. The name was formerly given to adifferent fish in Western Australia.See also Bastard-Trumpeter, Morwong,and Paper-fish.

1834. M. Doyle, `Letters and Journals of G. F. Moore, SwanRiver Settlement,' p. 191:

«Many persons are trying to salt fish, which are very numerousin the river about and below Perth, as you must have seen byone of my letters, in which I mentioned our having taken 10,000at one draught of the seine; these are of the kind calledherrings, but do not look very like them; they make a noisewhen out of the water, and on that account are also calledtrumpeters.»

1870. T. H. Braim, `New Homes,' vol. ii. p. 65:

«The finest kinds are the guard-fish of the mainland and thetrumpeter of the Derwent in Tasmania.»

1882. Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, `Fish of New South Wales,'p. 45:

«The first of these [Latris] is the genus of the well-known

`Hobart Town trumpeter,' a fish deservedly of high reputation.»

2) An obsolete name in Tasmania for the black Crow-Shrike (q.v.), Strepera fuliginosa, Gould.

1832. J. Bischoff, `Van Diemen's Land,' p. 177:

«We also occasionally heard the trumpeter or black magpie.»