scarlet colour.

<hw>Red-streaked Spider</hw>, or <hw>Black-and-red Spider</hw>,
an Australasian spider (<i>Latrodectus scelio</i>, Thorel.),
called in New Zealand the <i>Katipo</i> (q.v.).

<hw>Red-throat</hw>, <i>n</i>. a small brown Australian
singing-bird, with a red throat, <i>Pyrrholaemus brunneus</i>,
Gould.

<hw>Reed-mace</hw>, <i>n</i>. See <i>Wonga</i>
and <i>Raupo</i>.

<hw>Reef</hw>, <i>n</i>. term in gold-mining; a vein of
auriferous quartz. Called by the Californian miners a vein, or
lode, or ledge. In Bendigo, the American usage remains, the
words <i>reef, dyke</i>, and <i>vein</i> being used as
synonymous, though reef is the most common. (See quotation,
1866.) In Ballarat, the word has two distinct meanings,
viz. the <i>vein</i>, as above, and the <i>bed-rock</i> or
<i>true-bottom</i>. (See quotations, 1869 and 1874.) Outside
Australia, a <i>reef</i> means "a chain or range of rocks lying
at or near the surface of the water." (`Webster.')

1858. T. McCombie, `History of New South Wales,' c. xiv.
p. 213:

"A party . . . discovered gold in the quartz-reefs of the
Pyrenees [Victoria]."

1860. W. Kelly, `Life in Victoria,' vol. ii. p. 148:

"If experience completely establishes the fact, at least, under
existing systems, that the best-paying reefs are those that are
largely intersected with fissures--more inclined to come out in
pebbles than in blocks--or, if I might coin a designation,
`rubble reefs,' as contradistinguished from `boulder reefs,'
showing at the same time a certain degree of ignigenous
discoloration . . . still, where there are evidences of
excessive volcanic effect . . . the reef may be set down as
poor . . ."

1866. A. R. Selwyn, `Exhibition Essays,' Notes on the
Physical Geography, Geology, and Mineralogy of Victoria:

"Quartz occurs throughout the lower palaeozoic rocks in veins,
`dykes' or `reefs,' from the thickness of a thread to 130
feet."

1869. R. Brough Smyth, `Goldfields Glossary,' p. 619:

"Reef. The term is applied to the tip-turned edges of the
palaeozoic rocks. The reef is composed of slate, sandstone,
or mudstone. The bed-rock anywhere is usually called the reef.
A quartz-vein; a lode."

1874. Reginald A. F. Murray, `Progress Report, Geological
Survey, Victoria,' vol. i. p. 65 [Report on the Mineral
Resources of Ballarat]:

"This formation is the `true bottom,' `bed rock' or `reef,'
of the miners."

1894. `The Argus,' March 28, p.