[Maori name.] A New Zealand bird, Prosthematodera novæ-zelandiæ: = PARSON-BIRD 1, MOCKING-BIRD 2 f.
1835. [see MOCKING-BIRD 2 f].
1857, 1866. [see PARSON-BIRD 1].
1869. G. H. Kingsley, Sport & Trav., iv. (1900), 64. Singing birds, some like the New Zealand tui.
1884. Bracken, Lays Maori, 101. I hear the swell Of Nature’s psalms through tree and bush, From tui, blackbird, finch and thrush.
1908. Auckland Weekly News, 17 Dec., 50/1. It is only occasionally that the silence is broken by the liquid notes of the tui and the bell bird.
