audax, Lath. 26 (edition Hooker, 1896),p. 171: It was an Australian bird of paradise, the celebratedRifle-bird (Ptilorhis victoriae), which, according toGould, has the most brilliant plumage of all Australian birds. `Catalogue of Vienna Exhibition': Hinau--a white wood used for turner's work.
It is not a timber-tree but a forage-plant. , called later Polyprion prognathus(see quotation, 1895), pronounced hapuka, frequentlycorrupted into habuka, the Groper (q. 288: The flowers are gathered, and by steeping them a night inwater the natives made a sweet beverage called `bool. Ericeae(peculiar to Tasmania).
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