KEA AND KAKA 
and thus sound. It lives a good deal on the ground, as 
might be supposed from its propensities to convert 
sheep into mutton. And when on the ground it hops in 
a corvine fashion instead of adopting the more usual 
psittacine waddle. Nestor meridionalis is the only 
other living species, and its Maori vernacular name is 
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KEA PARROT. 
Kaka. This Nestor does not appear to have as yet taken 
to a diet of mutton ; it feeds upon insects, and is more 
arboreal than its ally. Both species may be seen at the 
Zoo from time to time. Both also nest in crevices of 
rocks, and of course, as all parrots do, lay white eggs. 
The laying of white eggs is correlated with a concealed 
nest, but the correlation does not amount at all to any- 
thing like cause and effect. For eggs placed in exposed 
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