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The Honey-eaters : The Bell-bird 
being Dr. Anderson, surgeon and natural historian of the 
Resolution, on Captain Cook’s third voyage. He described the 
natural history of Queen Charlotte Sound, as they lay there in 
February, 1777- The bell-bird was apparently plentiful; and 
he writes of it as “a small greenish bird, which is almost the 
only musical one here, but is sufficient by itself to fill the woods 
with a melody that is not only sweet, but so varied, that one 
would imagine that he was surrounded by a hundred different 
sorts of birds, when the little warbler is near. From this cir¬ 
cumstance we named it the mocking-bird.” (CVW, p. 656). 
As a matter of fact, it is the tui that is the mimic, and when he 
sings his harsh notes, kree, kraw, krurr, etc., 1 believe he is 
imitating the bell-bird. The latter is able to use the harsh 
notes artistically, as she does in the whisper-song (21) above. 
Chatham Island bell-bird.—Like the former, but larger. I 
have neither seen nor heard this bird. 
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