name given to one of theGum-trees, Eucalyptus amygdalina, Labill. A little black-and-whitebird with a large head; it is very tame, and has a shortmelancholy song. Brough Smyth, `Goldfields of Victoria,' p. argenteus, Gould.
37: White Mapau, or Piripiri-whata (Carpodetus serratus),an ornamental shrub-tree, with mottled-green leaves, and largecymose panicles of white flowers. '): The majority of the horses there [in Australia] are viciousand given to the trick of buck jumping. Kingsley, `Geoffr/e/y Hamlyn,' vol. The name was given by Sir Frederick McCoy in1867.
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