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rapid triplet, is shown in (18) : this sometimes preceded the reedy 
note, sometimes followed it, but was usually heard alone: it 
had an open vibrato clarinet sound. 
The notes of (19), heard in January, 1913, were clear whistles, 
followed by kraw ; or one whistle might precede four reedy 
notes, as in (20). The three low notes of (21) were not bell, nor 
whistle, nor reed, but a thick muffled sound like qug, qug, qug, 
at times sounded singly, at times followed by kraw. 
-- r r r 
rnk -1 ^ 1 
—U 1 - 1 K — Z. .g— 1 -— 
5 
5 
Kraw Kraw 
In (22) two bell notes were followed by a staccato whistle, 
the whole closed with a click, or click with kraw krurr added. 
In (23) each bell-note was followed by a light note, barely 
audible, two octaves higher, concluding with the gutturals kree, 
kraw, krurr; and in (24), heard two years afterwards, in 
December, 1912, there was a downward slur of one octave, three 
times repeated, and followed by a reedy note. 
At Mount Misery, near Hokitika, on the bush-covered west 
coast of the South Island, the call-note in September, 1914, was 
