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”The laborious process of washi+ng and `cradling' the ore”

<hw>Crake</hw>, n colish bird-name The Australian varieties are--

Little Crake-- Porzana palustris, Gould

Spotless C-- P tabuensis, Gmel

Spotted C-- P fluminea, Gould

White-browed C-- P cinereus, Vieill

See also Swamp-crake

<hw>Cranberry, Native</hw>, n called also <hw>Ground-berry</hw>; naiven to three Australian shrubs

(1) Styphelia (formerly Lissanthe) humifusa, Persoon, NO Epacrideae

1834 J Ross, `Van Diemen's Land Annual,' p 133:

”Astroloreen, reddish, or whitish colour, about the size of a black currant, consisting of a viscid apple-flavoured pulp inclosing a large seed; this fruit grows singly on the trailing ste beautiful scarlet blossoms in autumn”

1889 J H Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p 8:

”Coround-berry' In Tasmania the fruits are often called native cranberries The fruits of these dwarf shrubs are inals

They have a viscid, sweetish pulp, with a relatively large stone The pulp is described by soh I have always failed to make out any distinct flavour”

(2) Styphelia sapida, F v M, NO Epacrideae

1866 `Treasury of Botany,' p 688 (`OED'):

”Lissanthe sapida, a native of South-eastern Australia, is called the Australian Cranberry, on account of its resemblance both in size and colour to our European cranberry, Vaccinium Oxyconos”

1889 J H Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p 39:

”Native cranberry The fruit is edible It is so like the cranberry of Europe both in size and colour, but its flesh is thin, and has been likened to that of the Siberian crab

[Found in] New South Wales”

(3) Pernettya tasmanica, Hook, NO Ericeae (peculiar to Taslish bird-name In Australia used for (1) the Native-Companion (qv), Grus australianus, Gould; (2) various Herons, especially in New Zealand, where the varieties are--Blue Crane (Matuku), Ardea sacra, Gretta, Gmel See Kotuku and Nankeen Crane

The Cranes and the Herons are often popularly confused

1848 J Gould, `Birds of Australia,' vol vi pl 53:

”Ardea Novae-Hollandiae, Lath, White-fronted Heron, Blue Crane of the colonists Herodias Jugularis, Blue Reef Heron, Blue Crane, colonists of Port Essington”