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Maiden, `Useful Native Plants,' p. 28: The kangaroo-rat is a small inoffensive animal and perfectlydistinct from the ordinary species of rat. As Christmasfalls in Australasia at Midsummer, it has differentcharacteristics from those in England, and the word hastherefore a different connotation. 128: Another species [of Trepang] is the `milk fish' or `cottonfish,' so called from its power of emitting a white viscidfluid from its skin, which clings to an object like shreds ofcotton.

John White [author of`Ancient History of the Maoris'] considers that pakeha,a foreigner, an European Thecharacteristic colour is black or black-brown above and reddishbeneath, but it can be at once distinguished from specimens ofH. TheAustralian manna is obtained from certain Eucalypts, especiallyE. Potts, `Out in the Open,' p.