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gestive of a declamatory style of preaching. He shakes his head, 
bending to one side, then to another, as if he remarked to this one ~ 
and to that, and now and then with pent-up vehemence his voice 
waxes loud in a manner apparently intended to awaken some of his 
drowsy listeners. 
Tennyson makes his northern farmer say of his Parson: 
I ’eiird “um ah bummin’ awaiiy like a buzzard-clock ower my ’eiid, 
be in Bose ay ae ce ae eee ne Re OO ac Be x 
An’ I thowt a said whot a owt to ’a said an’ I coom’d awaiiy. 
Evidently the farmer’s preacher was not of the Tui style, or the 
farmer’s ears would have been more attentive to what was said. 
He seems to be a thorough Mocking-bird, both in power of song 
_and in power to imitate the human voice. I think it was Sir Geo. 
Grey who was addressing a Maori gathering on some political sub- 
ject in a chief’s tent. When he had finished, a Tui hanging in a cage 
above his head, said: “Tito” (“false ”)—which caused an immense 
roar of Jaughter among his hearers. The old chief said: “ Friend, 
your arguments are very good, but my Tui is a very nice bird and 
he is not yet convinced.” In a state of nature the Tui is much 
more lively than when in confinement. It is constantly on the 
move. The early morning is their time for music; a matinee for 
sure. When engaged in song, the Tui puffs out his feathers, dis- 
tends his throat, opens wide his beak, and gesticulates with his 
head as he pours forth the harmony of his soul. 
Sir George Grey, who thoroughly understood the Maori tongue, 
has given us in Maori, not only an illustration of the varied song of 
the Tui, but tells us what the native Maori thinks the bird says to 
him in his song. Any one who has listened to our Brown Thrush, 
or that more recent summer visitor from the South, the Cat-bird, 
which is, I think, a small species of the Southern Mocking-bird, will 
not fail to recognize the resemblance of the Tui’s song to theirs, 
especially in the wonderfully varied notes. 
The Tui’s supposed song in Maori : 
““KKo tu Koe 
IXo rango [Soe 
KKo te manuwhiri 
No runga te manuwhiri 
No raro te manuwhiri 
No to ti 
