Bird-Song : and New Zealand Song Birds 
The kaka displays many variations in plumage, yellow ami 
orange, and almost white, and the Maori has a number of names 
to describe these variations (WJ, p. 200), but for the ordinary 
££££" 0t —T both Maori a„J 
The kea.— Dull olive-green, each feather edged with black- 
°™' **“ “0 beneath the wings, red, enter webs 
primaries blue, then inner webs banded with yellow; tail, green 
T)i 1 a black bar near the tip. Eye, black. The sexes are alike 
-e young have the dark edgings to the feathers broader. 
Eggs. —White. Length, If in. 
This is an extraordinary bird, energetic and entertaining- 
be ^gratified bv h * ^ protected 80 that tourists might 
run hold! s w qUaintneSS ’~ Whi l st «t the same time the 
' ,' ere ex asperated by his destructiveness. The 
nie fa “ e regl0n ^r hiS h0me; fr0m his eliff y e y ries - his cran- 
cent Alohie 1? Sn ° W ' b0rder ’ and in si 8' h t of the magnifi¬ 
cent Alpine wildernesses culminating in Mount Cook, the kea 
and won 1 W o 0r ! d . I r eland rieVer ' isSUed 011 ** forays, killing 
and much i,’^ hundreds ' Hls st ory has been often told, 
the bTrd f T r itten ° n the stran 8' e change of habit in 
choice m W f Ce(ler ° n r °° tS and berries t0 a devourer of 
f, has hada bo ° k “ 
ha vp hoot l n ea ’ an< ^ ^ 1S vam pi r ic propensities 
a ™ 1 T ,Ts ? m “ V Wi <™ ‘bat he alights upon 
Mnevt, V,b ) “ P f ° r ” th “ than to eat the 
s llll| |„; h , 1 , he IV '"" animal. But in England, the jackdaw 
causes 'V: *" SheeI> ’ 8 b ““ k . and the magpie often 
can es sotes on the backs of cattle, in searching for parasites. 
a„d as P “ slble "’ere the extents of country as great 
the taa ™ 7 fT d “ **>«* “ h Canterbury, where 
have helm ) es '™«tive, the jackdaws and magpies would 
r “ “r-* The » 
whose couccr • * red under Ins wings; and those 
era is sheep consider that when he raises his wings 
