Thrush, New Zealand, 39 : Potts on its 
nest and eggs, 43 ; only the North 
Island species sang, 43-44 ; Maori 
proverb, 44 
Tieke, 94 ; see saddle-back, 98 
Timbre of sounds, 4, 6 
Tiraueke, the saddleback, in battle of the 
birds, 26 
Titipounamu, see rifleman 
Tit, 48, 60 
Titmouse, 68 
Tiwaiwaka, found by Turi, 104. 
Tiwakawaka, 18 
Toitoi, 69 ; see brown creeper, 78 
Tomtit, 48 ; white-breasted and yellow¬ 
breasted, 60 ; a love-messenger, 63 
Toutouwai, 48 ; see South Island robin, 
65 
Travers, W. T. L., differences in North 
Island and South Island birds, 70 ; 
coming of blight-bird, 107 
Tui, 106 ; when first made known, 113 ; 
the parson-bird of Cook, 113 ; first 
brought alive to England, 113-114 ; 
character of tui, 114; known as the 
mocking-bird, 114 ; Cook’s description 
of morning chorus, 116 ; has many 
notes in common with bell-bird, 126 ; 
its whisper-song, 127 ; sings duets, 
131 ; his improving on his imitations, 
131-132 ; the morning chorus, 132-135 ; 
teaching of young to sing, 135-136 ; 
cinema portrait of tui, 136 ; the Maori 
taught him speeches, 136-138 ; female 
gives signal in chorus, 139 ; various 
names, 140 ; deities of tui, 140 ; tui in 
battle of the birds, 26 ; harsh notes 
possibly imitation of bell-bird, 161 
Turi, the voyager, 104 
Turnagra crassirostris, 39 
Turnagra tanagra, 39 
Twenty-eight, a parrakeet cry, 193 
Twinkie, see blight-bird 
Twite failed to establish itself, 90 
Upokotea, 69 
Urodynamis taitensis, 179 
Vibration of strings, etc., 3-4 
Violin-players and natural scale, 8 
Visitants from Australia and Tasmania, 
107 
Vocalization of songs valued, 90 
Wagtail, forms of name, 110 
Wanganui Museum, albino fantail, 22 
Warbler, grey, 48 ; see grey warbler 
Warblers, 45 
Watson, J. and W. B., migration of birds, 
10, 11 ; notes of cuckoo, 174 
Wax-eye, see blight-bird 
Weka, 199 
Wharauroa, see cuckoo, shining 
Whatihua and the forest-maiden, 114 
White, G., song of titmouse, 68 
White birds, occult significance, 64 
White-ear, meaning of name, 110, 111 
White-eye, see blight-bird 
White-head, 69 ; North and South Island 
forms, 70-71 ; flocks accompanied by 
saddlebacks, 71 ; optimism and song, 
12 - 12 , 
White-throat, acclimatization in New 
Zealand, 45 ; French form of name, 110 
Wilson, F., notes of huia, 95 
Witchell, C. A., intervals of bird notes, 1 ; 
mimicry in song, 13 
Wodwale, the woodwale or woodlark, 86 
Wohlers, J. F. H., song of bell-bird, 151 ; 
cry of morepork, 197-198 
Woo'd, J. G., song of titmouse, 68 
Woodhen, see weka 
Woodlark, song of, 85 ; supposed to be 
referred to as woodwale, 86 
Woodwale, probably the woodlark, 86 
Wren, English, acclimatization in New 
Zealand, 45 
Yarrell, W., song of nightingale, 10 ; 
mimicry, 13 ; song of titmouse, 68 ; 
of skylark, 85 ; of finches, 90 ; of 
starling, 93 ; note of cuckoo, 173 
Yates, W., confused the cuckoos, 174, 181 
Year, Maori year once divided into ten 
months, 137 note 
Yellowhammer, vocalization of song, 83, 
89 
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Zosterops caerulescens, 106 
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