Digging around some more, I see that Glen Ingram posted the following
information on birding-aus, back in 1997:
T.A. Coward, published in London in 1922, titled Bird Haunts & Nature
Memories.
"A West Coast Irishman was familiar with the wild creatures which dwelt on
or visited his rocks and shores; at a glance he could name them, usually
correctly, but if asked how he knew them would reply 'By their "jizz".'
What is jizz?.. We have not coined it, but how wide its use in Ireland is
we
cannot say... Jizz may be applied to or possessed by any animate and some
inanimate objects, yet we cannot clearly define it. A single character may
supply it, or it may be the combination of many." (p. 141).
Bill Jolly
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