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toolache, n.|ˈtuːlætʃ, tuːˈleɪtʃɪ|
Also toolach; † dulachie, † toolatchee.
[ad. Aboriginal (Yaralde, S. Austral.) dulaj.]
A name in southern Australia for the large wallaby Macropus greyi, now probably extinct. Also as toolache wallaby.
1879G. Hamilton Journey Port Phillip to S. Austral. 47 Kangaroos, Kangaroo rats, toolatchee, and wallaby were very numerous. 1885Eng. Illustr. Mag. Mar. 398/2 There were lots of dulachies, which are smaller than a brown kangaroo, and are grey-haired and red-headed. 1890J. I. Watts Family Life S. Austral. 182 There was a species [of kangaroo] that I had not seen on this side of the Murray, called by the blacks Toolaches. 1926Le Souef & Burrell Wild Animals Australasia 189 Grey's wallaby, known as the ‘toolach’, is now very scarce. 1980Rec. Q. Victoria Museum, Launceston lxxi. 1 The last Toolach Wallaby seen alive appears to have been one held in captivity at Robe, South Australia, in 1927. |