Index 
213 
Kawau (cormorant or shag), in battle of 
the birds. 25-26 
Kea, 188 ; English birds have similar 
habit, 188 ; spelling should be kia, 111 
Kiore and pouwhaitere duet, 193 
Kiwi, on postage stamp, 96-97 
Kokako, 101 ; found by Turi, 104 ; in 
battle of the birds, as honge, 26 
Korimako, see bell-bird 
Koukou, see morepork 
Kuku, in battle of the birds, 26 
Kurangai-tuku, the ogre-woman, 59 
Lark, the British birds, 84-86 ; and see 
skylark 
Linnet, meaning and forms of name, 110 
Linnet, green, see greenfinch 
Linnet, grey, acclimatized, 90 
Little Barrier a sanctuary, 97-98 
Lydgate, J., mentions woodlark as wod- 
wale, 86 
Macgillivray, —., vocalization of song of 
thrush, 33 
Main, —., song of the skylark, 84 
Makomako, see bell-bird 
Maori hen, see weka 
Maori music, 2 ; influenced by warbler, 58 
Mathews, G. M., cuckoo migration, 171 
Maui and the Mother of Death, 28 
Melampsalta cingulata, 204 
Melody instinctive, 6 
Migration of birds, 164-166 ; males pre¬ 
cede females, 10 
Miller, D. C., natural and tempered scales, 
7 
Milford, J., sociability of birds, 72 
Mimicry in song, 12-13 
Miro albifrons, 64 
Miro australis, 65 
Miromiro, 48 ; see tom-tit 
Missel-thrush, forms and meaning of 
name, 111 
Mistletoe, Potts’s description of, 147 
Mocking-bird, how bell-bird came to be 
called so, 160 
Mohua, 69 : see bush-canary, 77 
Mohua, ochrocephala 77 
Momigny, —., harmonics, 5 
Morepork, 196 ; in battle of the birds, 26 ; 
forms of Maori name, 110 
Motu Ngaro Island a sanctuary, 98 
Mudie, R., birds blossom in spring, 8 ; 
song of caged birds, 9 ; song of tit¬ 
mouse, 68 ; of woodlark, 85 ; meaning 
of name missel-thrush, 111 
Myths, Maori, battle of the birds, 25 ; 
Maui snaring the sun, 104 ; Maui over¬ 
coming death, 28 ; confusion in collec¬ 
tion of, 140 ; superior and inferior ver¬ 
sions, 140 ; hibernation of long-tailed 
cuckoo, 181-182 
Names of birds, 109-112 
Nesting-place, strange, 92 
Nestor meridionalis, 184 
Nestor notabilis, 188 
Nests, double,—fantail, 20 ; thrush, 35 ; 
linnet, 36 ; blackbird, 36 ; blight-bird, 
107 
Ngirungiru, 48 ; see tom tit 
Ngoiro (gull), in battle of the birds, 27 
Nightingale, duration of song-period, 9, 
10-11 ; acclimatization in New Zea¬ 
land, 45 ; n. and sappho, 136 
Ninox novae-zealandiae, 196 
Oboe, quality of sound, 4 
Occult significance in white birds, 64 
Ocvdromus, sp. 199 
Omens, Maori,—huia and crane, 97 ; 
saddle-back, 100 
Onslow, Earl, son named Huia, 97 
Overtones in vibrating strings, etc., 4-6 
Owen, J. A., sociability of birds, 72 ; 
English and French bird-names, 110-11 
Paradise duck, 202 
Parrakeet, 191 ; vocalization of notes, 
192, 193 ; known to Maori as the foot¬ 
baller, 195 
Parrot, brown, see kaka 
Parrot, mountain, see kea 
Parson-bird, see tui 
Partial tones, 4-6 
Partnership among birds, see sociability 
Patu-paiarehe, albinos their offspring, 64 
Petroeca macrocephala, 60 
Petroeca toitoi, 60 
Pipe used in recording songs, 8 
Pigeon (kuku), in battle of the birds, 26 
Pihoihoi, 81 
Piopio, 39 
Pipipi, 69 ; see brown creeper, 78- 
Pipiwharauroa, see cuckoo, shining 
Pirakaraka, a name of the fantail in battle 
of the birds, 26 
Pitoitoi, 48 ; see North Island robin, 64 
Piwakawaka, 18 
Pogonornis cincta, 140 
Pokotea, 69 
Postage stamps showing New Zealand 
birds, 96 
