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Index 
Potts, T. H., fantail and cuckoo, 25 ; fan- 
tail carrying food, 28 ; New Zealand 
thrush, 40-43 ; a third species of 
warbler, 50 ; eulogy of warbler, 50 ; 
on the yellow-breasted tit, 60-61 ; on 
habits of saddle-back, 98-100 ; the 
North Island crow, 101 ; the South 
Island crow, 102 ; first appearance of 
blight-bird, 107 ; spelling of kea, 112 ; 
habits of bell-bird, 142 ; description 
of mistletoe and of alpine scene, 
147-149 ; egg of cuckoo, 167 ; song 
of cuckoo, 176 
Poy-bird of Cook, 113 
Prosthemadera novae-zealandiae, 112 
Proverbs, Maori,—regarding thrush, 44 ; 
warbler, 58 ; tom-tit, 63 ; crane, 64 ; 
white hawk, 64 ; saddle-back, 100 ; 
Maori quail, 115; tui, 136; shining 
cuckoo, 177, 179 ; long-tailed cuckoo, 
182 ; kaka, 187 ; pigeon, 187 ; par¬ 
rakeet, 195 ; weka, 201 ; cicada, 206 
Pseudogerygone igata, 48 
Putangitangi, 202 
Quail, Maori, in proverb, 115 
Quality of sounds, 4, 6 
Redpoll acclimatized, 90 
Reed-warbler, acclimatization in New 
Zealand, 45 
Rehua, bird of, 204 
Reischek, A., song of the tom-tit, 62-63 ; 
destruction of stitch-bird, 141 ; song of 
bell-bird, 150 
Resolution Island a sanctuary, 98 
Rhipidura flabellifera, 18 
Rhipidura fuliginosa, 18 
Rifleman, 162 
Ring-eye, see blight-bird 
Riroriro, 48 ; see grey warbler 
Robin, 48 ; in battle of the birds, 26 ; 
North Island robin, 65 ; South Island 
robin, 64-65 ; in snaring of sun, 105 
Robin Hood ballad mentions wood-lark, 
86 
Romanes, G. J., singing instinctive, 13-14 
Ruru, see morepork 
Saddle-back, 94, 98 ; accompanies white- 
heads, 71 ; in snaring of sun, 105 
Sanctuaries set aside, 97-98 
Scale, musical, in bird-song, 1 ; physical 
basis of, 3, 4-6 ; not invented by 
science, 6 ; tempered scale, 7 
Schmitt, C., song of blackbird, 44 
Sex and song, 8-12 
Shag, in battle of the birds, 25-26 
Shortland, E., song of bell-bird, 149-150 
Silver-eye, see blight-bird 
Skylark, 84 ; its method of singing, 84, 
87-88 ; compass of song, 86 ; vocaliza¬ 
tion of notes, 86, 87 
Smith, S. Percy, white-heads and saddle¬ 
backs, 71 
Sociability of thrush and hedgesparrow, 
39 ; of white-head and saddleback, 71 ; 
of various English birds, 72 
Song, not a sexual character, 8 ; period 
when song is best, 9 ; why confined to 
male, 11 ; female objecting to song of 
male, 11-12 ; emulation in, 12 ; learn¬ 
ing of by young birds, 13-14 ; aesthetic 
nature of, 14 
Songs, Maori,—hauling song introducing 
bird - calls, 100 ; greeting shining 
cuckoo, 177 ; concerning same, 179 ; 
the long-tailed cuckoo, 180 ; duet, rat 
and parrakeet, 193 ; parrakeet, 194 ; 
song and dance on cicada theme, 207 
Sparrow, 92 ; reached Chatham Islands 
unaided, 107 
Stadler, H., song of blackbird, 44 
Starling, 93 ; flying oversea to roost, 
93-94 
Stitch-bird, 140; in snaring of the sun, 105 
Stowell, H., translation of a tui-speech, 
137 ; pronunciation of words by tui, 
138 ; an original tui-speech, 138 ; on 
the tui singing in chorus, 139 ; cuckoo 
and warbler, 167 ; cuckoo carrying 
pebble, 178 ; rendering of song, 179 ; 
kaka and morning chorus, 187 ; song 
and dance of cicada theme, 207 
Swallow, song of, 12 
Swinburne, A. C., Sappho and the nightin¬ 
gale, 136 
Tane-te-wai-ora, in battle of the birds, 26 
Tarakihi, see cicada 
Tauhou, see blight-bird 
Taylor, R., morning song of bell-birds, 
150 ; the cuckoo, 166, 174-175, 182 
Tempered scale in music, 7 
Thomson, A. S., on song of bell-bird, 149 
Thrush, English, 30 ; practice notes, 31- 
33 ; vocalization of notes, 32-33 ; 
change in habits, 34-38 ; double nests, 
35 ; double-lined nests, 36 ; varying 
eggs, 36 ; hedgesparrow in thrush’s 
nest, 39 
