Fulton. — The Pip/'trliaraiiron, or Bronze Cuckoo. 407 



under a leaning dead stump about 6 ft. from the ground, and concealed by 

 leaves and rubbish. In and about the nest we found feathers that I am 

 sure once belonged to the old birds. In this instance the whole thing was 

 so clear that it left no doubt in my mind as to their mode of rearing their 

 young." This is a very circumstantial account of the reversion to the 

 habit of nest-building in this pair of birds. The lack of pairing in the 

 ordinary sense of the word leads to parasitism. The action of these two 

 birds in pairing, constructing a nest, or at any rate making a place where 

 eggs could be laid and hatched, feeding systematically, and afterwards 

 teaching five young ones to fly, constitutes one of the most interesting 

 facts in the economy of that generally considered parasitic bird the bronze 

 cuckoo of New Zealand. 



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(2.) Tregear, " Comparative Dictionary of the Maori," j). 338. 



(3.) Fulton, Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. xxxvi, p. 133. 



(4.) Yate, " An Account of New Zealand," p. 65. 



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(10.) Hutton and Drummond, " Animals of New Zealand," p. 120. 



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(13.) Ibid., p. 582. 



(14.) Ibis, January, 1909. 



(15.) Kidd, " Instinct of Animals " {Century Magazine). 



(16.) Kearton, " Our Bird Friends," p. 162. 



(17.) Hutton and Drummond, " Animals of New Zealand," p. 124. 



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(19.) Taylor, " Te Ika a Maui," p. 618. 



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(23.) Ibid., pp. 125, 126, 128. 



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