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opening and shutting its beak and working its throat as if swallowing, but 

 never moving from its place. After a time the old bird flew off, and the 

 young one seemed instinctively to know it was for good, as it shuffled off 

 along the branch and was hidden in the foliage. 



Parrakeet. 



The chuckling cry (3), uttered when resting or during Might, was varied 

 as in (6), six to eight semi cpia vers a second. The do be quick of (5), Banks 

 Peninsula, in 1912, was pretty quick, on one note, at Kapiti, (7), and on 

 one day the sound was distinctly pretty dick, the " d " uttered as by 

 one slightly tongue-tied. Buller makes a good deal of a bird, kept on a 

 railway-station, having been taught to say " Be quick " ; but there is 



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little need for teaching, as this is the vocalization of some of the natural 

 wild notes. None but red-fronted parrakeets were seen, though on one 

 day an exceptionally large bird, bright green from a back view, and seeming 

 nearly as large as a kaka, flew silently from me up a short glade ; and as I 

 passed the caretaker's house he remarked that he had seen two exception- 

 ally large parrakeets. These would be the Antipodes Island birds liberated 

 at Kapiti by Dr. Cockayne at the end of 1907, or progeny from them. 



Weka. 



In only one pair of wekas could I detect any essential difference 

 between the cry of the male and the female. In this pair the cries were 

 as in (12) : the female's was a little higher in pitch, was on one note, and 





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sounded shriller. When calling, the male stood erect, with bill and neck 

 stretched upwards, the bill open as the cry pulsed up through the pipe. 

 The deep mmb of the male often sounded at the same time as the call. 



