The Pipit 
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Tlie characteristic call of the pipit is as (1). This call I 
heard at Kapiti. The notes may be uttered in any order, or 
there may be but one, two, or three of the pi-pits or pi-pi-pits. 
In the upper Godley valley, near the terminal face of the 
glacier, the call-notes were as (2) ; the reply being as (4). If 
the call-notes of (2) were not answered, the call would be 
varied as in (3), the slurred close sounding like the upward 
slur of the goldfinch, or like the similar slur of the canary,—a 
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di. di. di. di. di.di. bthee 
rather plaintive sound. The notes of (5) are very like those 
of the yellowhammer, in vocalization as well as in pitch. There 
were no vellowhammers so far up in the mountains, but I heard 
and saw" many of them in the country between Cave and 
Fairlie some weeks later. The yellowhammer’s notes have 
been likened to the words little bit of bread and no cheese, the 
ee of cheese being* drawn out, in the same way as the btliee of 
the pipit. 
Of the half-dozen variants of the Maori name recorded (WJ, 
p. 199) the most usual is pihoihoi. 
The Antipodes-lark. —This is similar in colouring to the 
pipit, but the lower surface is tinged with fulvous. The wing 
is rather shorter, the crest of the sternum is much reduced, 
and the bird flies badly. I have neither seen nor heard this 
bird. 
