.
Something like cayenne and allspice mixed, . . . the aromatic
flavour is very pleasant. I have known people who, having
first adopted its use for want of other condiments, continue
it from preference."

1888. Cassell's `Picturesque Australasia,' vol. iii.
p. 138:

"Bright green pepper-trees with their coral berries."

<hw>Peragale</hw>, <i>n</i>. the scientific name of the genus
of Australian marsupial animals called <i>Rabbit-
Bandicoots</i>. See <i>Bandicoot</i>. (Grk. <i>paera</i>,
a bag or wallet, and <i>galae</i>, a weasel.)

<hw>Perameles</hw>, <i>n</i>. scientific name for the typical
genus of the family of Australian marsupial animals called
<i>Bandicoots</i> (q.v.), or <i>Bandicoot-Rats</i>. The word
is from Latin <i>pera</i> (word borrowed from the Greek), a bag
or wallet, and <i>meles</i> (a word used by Varro and Pliny),
a badger.

<hw>Perch</hw>, <i>n</i>. This English fish-name is applied
with various epithets to many fishes in Australia, some of the
true family <i>Percidae</i>, others of quite different
families. These fishes have, moreover, other names attached to
them in different localities. See <i>Black Perch</i>,
<i>Fresh-water P</i>., <i>Golden P</i>., <i>Magpie P</i>.,
<i>Murray P</i>., <i>Pearl P</i>., <i>Red P</i>., <i>Red Gurnet
P</i>., <i>Rock P</i>., <i>Sea P</i>., <i>Parrot Fish</i>,
<i>Poddly</i>, <i>Burramundi</i>, <i>Mado</i>, and <i>Bidyan
Ruffe</i>.

1882. Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, `Fish of New South Wales,'
p. 31:

"<i>Lates colonorum</i>, the perch of the colonists . . ,
really a fresh-water fish, but . . . often brought to the
Sydney market from Broken Bay and other salt-water
estuaries. . . . The perch of the Ganges and other East Indian
rivers (<i>L. calcarifer</i>) enters freely into brackish
water, and extends to the rivers of Queensland."

[See <i>Burramundi</i>. <i>L. colonorum</i> is called the
<i>Gippsland Perch</i>, in Victoria.]

1882. Ibid. p. 45:

"The other genus (<i>Chilodactylus</i>) is also largely
represented in Tasmania and Victoria, one species being
commonly imported from Hobart Town in a smoked and dried state
under the name of `perch.'"

<hw>Perish, doing a</hw>, modern slang from Western Australia.
See quotation.

1894. `The Argus,' March 28, p. 5, col. 4:

"When a man (or party) has nearly died through want of water
he is said to have `done a perish.'"

<hw>Perpetual Lease</hw>, though a misnomer, is a statutory
expressio