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or throb on the final note, vocalized bthee, in which, too, I fancied I 
detected an overtone of a fifth, or twelfth, 
The common call was as in (3), sung about six notes to the second, the 
reply being as in (4). If there happened to be no reply to the call (3) 
after it had been made two or three times, an addition was made, as in (5). 
This was a plaintive slur, like the slur of a goldfinch or the sweet of 
à canary. It was hearing this slur, before I saw the birds, that led me 
to think they were goldfinches on the hillside. The place of the slur was 
sometimes taken by a vibrato note, half-flattened. The slur was often 
sounded alone. 
Вк Peneuin (Eudyptula minor). 
I had good opportunity for hearing this extraordinary song, if song 
it may be called, on Kapiti. During stormy weather blue penguins 
lamentation. The first notes, long-drawn, and vocaliz 
expiratory, and were like the imploring cry of a child, crying piteously ; 
p 4 vibe — 
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^^ coc cooo. 
(epiratery) (inspiratory) 
the higher notes following, also long-drawn, and vocalized ooooh, seemed 
inspiratory, and were like a choking cry, with vibration at the close of 
the slur. Presumably the birds enjoyed the duet since it was so long- 
continued, but it seemed rather the despairing lament of two lovers about 
to be parted for ever, than the crooning of two happily united. 
CICADA; TATARAKIHI, OR Tarak (Cicada cingulata). 
Whilst this is not a bird, it has a song, and the song was liked by the 
Maori above all others; indeed, he called the cicada “ the bird of Rehua.” 
t. Nor do they all sing the same song. Nos. (1) and (2) are from 
Kapiti, and I am at certain that these were produced by tarakihi, as the 
song was not so vehement and shrill as the songs I have heard at Wellington. 
The vowels were all short (as in net, tut), and in the accelerated triplets the 
vowels seemed omitted, causing a sharper attack on each note; it is this 
sharp attack that causes the penetrating churr. The d sound is at times t. 
