16 Bird-Song: and Neu) Zealand Song Birds 
LIST OF AUTHORS QUOTED 
WITH ABBREVIATIONS 
BC Bechstein, J. M.—“Cage and Chamber Birds, tlieir Natural History” 
.translated from the German of J. M. Bechstein, M.D., with 
considerable additions.by H. G. Adams. Incorporating 
the whole of Sweet’s “British Warblers.” London, 1877. (Bohn’s 
Library.) 
BH Bolton, James. —“Harmonia Buralis.British Song Birds.” 
2v. London, 1845. 
BN Buller, Sir Walter L.—“A History of the Birds of New Zealand.” 
Ed. 2, 2v. London, 1888; and Supplement, 2v. London, 1905. 
CC Chance, Edgar. —“The Cuckoo’s Secret.” London, 1922. 
CJ Collier, James. —“The Pastoral Age in Australasia.” London, 1911. 
CP Canterbury Papers, Nos. 1-11. London, 1851. (Information con¬ 
cerning the Settlement of Canterbury.) 
CV Cook, Captain James. —“An Account of the Voyages.by 
Byron,.Cook,.” By John Hawkesworth. 3v. London, 
1773. 
CVW Cook, Captain James. —“The three famous Voyages round the 
World.James Cook.” 1 vol. London. (Ward Lock Bowden 
and Co.) n.d. 
CW Cornish, C. J.—“Wild England of To-day.” London, 1900. 
DD Darwin, Charles— “The Descent of Man.” London (Murray), 
1894. 
EB Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1911. Vol. 25, under “Song,” col. 2. 
EO Forsyth, Cecil. —“Orchestration.” London, 1914. 
FY Fowler, W. Warde —“A Year with the Birds.” London, 1889. 
GB Guthrie-Smith, H.—“Birds of the Water, Wood, and Waste.” 
Wellington, 1910. 
GM -Guthrie-Smith, H.—“Mutton Birds and Other Birds.” Christ¬ 
church, 1914. 
GK Grey, Sir George.— “Ko nga. whakapepeka.Aotea-roa. Pro¬ 
verbial and popular sayings of the.New Zealand Race.” 
Cape Town, 1857. 
GO Grey, Sir George. —“Polynesian Mythology and Maori Legends.” 
Auckland, 1885. 
GS Garstang, Walter.— “Songs of the Birds.” London, 1922. 
HA Hutton, Frederick W. and Drummond, James.—“A nimals of New 
Zealand.” Ed. 2 Christchurch, 1905. 
IIBNZ Handbook for New Zealand, by a late Magistrate of the Colony 
[E. Jerningham Wakefield]. London, 1848. 
HN Hudson, W. II.—“The Naturalist in La Plata.” London, 1892. 
IIS Harting, J. E.—“The Birds of Shakespeare.” London, 1871. 
JP Journal of the Polynesian Society. Vol. 1, 1892 (current) New 
Plymouth and Wellington. 
