mporalis</i>. Red-eyebrowed Finch.
Red-Bill of the Colonists."

`<hw>Red Bream</hw>, <i>n</i>. name given to the
<i>Schnapper</i> when one year old. See <i>Schnapper</i>.

<hw>Red Cedar</hw>, <i>n</i>. See <i>Cedar</i>.

1865. Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, `History of the Discovery and
Exploration of Australia,' vol. i. p. 434:

"M'Leay river, New South Wales, Lat. 30 degrees 40'. This
forest was found to contain large quantities of red cedar
(Cedrela toona) and white cedar (Melia azederach), which,
though very different from what is known as cedar at home,
is a valuable wood, and in much request by the colonists."

<hw>Red Currant</hw>, <i>n</i>. another name for the <i>Native
Currant</i> of Tasmania, <i>Coprosma nitida</i>, Hook.,
<i>N.O. Rubiaceae</i>. See <i>Currant, Native</i>.

<hw>Red Gum</hw>, <i>n</i>. (1) A tree. See <i>Gum</i>. The
two words are frequently made one with the accent on the first
syllable; compare <i>Blue-gum</i>.

(2) A medicinal drug. An exudation from the bark of
<i>Eucalyptus rostrata</i>, Schlecht, and other trees;
see quotation, 1793. Sir Ranald Martin introduced it
into European medical practice.

177 J. White, `Voyage to New South Wales,' p. 178:

"At the heart they [the trees] are full of veins, through which
an amazing quantity of an astringent red gum issues. This gum
I have found very serviceable in an obstinate dysentery."

Ibid. p. 233:

"A very powerfully astringent gum-resin, of a red colour,
much resembling that known in the shops as Kino, and,
for all medical purposes, fully as efficacious."

1793. J. E. Smith, `Specimen of Botany of New Holland,'
p. 10:

"This, Mr. White informs us, is one of the trees (for there are
several, it seems, besides the <i>Eucalyptus resinifera</i>,
mentioned in his Voyage, p. 231) which produce the red gum."

[The tree is <i>Ceratopetalum gummiferum</i>, Smith, called by
him <i>Three-leaved Red-gum Tree</i>. It is now called
<i>Officer Plant</i> or <i>Christmas-bush</i> (q.v.).]

1865. Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, `History of the Discovery
and Exploration of Australia,' vol. i. p. 42:

"The usual red gum was observed oozing out from the bark, and
this attracted their notice, as it did that of every explorer
who had landed upon the continent. This gum is a species of
kino, and possesses powerful astringent, and probably staining,
qualities."

<hw>Red Gurnet-Perch</hw>, <i>n</i>. name given in Victoria to
the fish