Also ti-ti. [Maori name.] A name in New Zealand for the Diving Petrel (Pelecanoides or Halodroma urinatrix), and for allied species.
1882. Ogilvie (Annandale), Tee-tee.
1891. Australasian, 14 Nov., 963/1 (Morris). The petrels—there are nine kinds,… the short-billed ti-ti, the long-billed ti ti [etc.].
1898. Morris, Austral Eng., Ti-ti, a Maori name for the sea-bird Pelecanoides urinatrix.
