Andersen. — New Zealand Bird-song . 



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The Hawk (Harrier). 



No. (1) was a whistling cry, sharp and quick, repeated at intervals whilst 

 the hawk circled, fairly high up, on a misty day. The shrill cry of (2) was 

 uttered whilst flying across the bush. 



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The Crow (Blue-wattled Crow ; Kokako ; Glaucopis wilsoni). 



This theme was whistled to me by a North Island surveyor, who said 

 the crow's song was one of the sweetest he had heard. 



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The Huia {Heteralocha acutirostris). 



The same gentleman also gave me the huia's cry (1). The phrase^ 

 sounded legato, repeated many times, was, he said, the cry of distress. It 

 sounded like the words Who are you? pronounced in the colloquial fashion 



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Who er yer ? — and it is not a far cry from these words to the native name 

 huia. The Maori call when attracting the bird was (2), repeated many 

 times. 



The whole of the above songs and notes were heard in Boleyn's Bush, 

 on Banks Peninsula, except those given as heard elsewhere, and excluding 

 the fantail's (9) to (12), which were heard in Christchurch. 



