[Maori.] The New Zealand Wattle-crow or Wattle-bird, Glaucopis cinerea and G. wilsoni.
1873. Butler, Birds N. Zeal. (1888), I. 3. In disposition the Kokako inherits the true characteristics of the Crow family. Ibid., II. 316. The rich flute-notes of the Kokako … in the low timber at the edge of the forest.
1882. T. H. Potts, Out in the Open, 194 (Morris). The kokako loving a moist temperature will probably soon forsake its ancient places of resort.
