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foot, Indian fashion, sometimes as many as twenty of them in single file, passing rapidly over the 

 ground by a succession of hops, and following their leader like a flock of sheep ; for, if the first 

 bird should have occasion to leap over a stone or fallen tree in the line of march, every bird in 

 the procession follows suit accordingly ! 



I saw a pair of caged ones in the possession of Mr. M c Nee at Hokitika, who told me that he 

 had snared them in the woods with perfect ease ; they were apparently quite reconciled to con- 

 finement, hopping from perch to perch in a very lively manner, and occasionally meeting to utter 

 a low chuckling note, as if in confidential intercourse. I observed that they usually carried the 

 wattles firmly compressed under the rami of the lower jaw. 



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