. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand . othertimes it produced a short mellifluous whistle, and every nowand then a liquid bell-note quite undistinguishable from theevening tolling of the tui. It occasionally, but not often,sounded the rich organ-note—short, but of surpassing sweet-ness—which I have described in my account of the NorthIsland Crow (Birds of New Zealand, i., p. 2). In additionto all this it has a soft note, in repetition very like the lowwhimper of the Huia, and, more rarely, a more exact simula-tion of a hollow cough than that of the Tui. I know nothingof the histo
. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand . othertimes it produced a short mellifluous whistle, and every nowand then a liquid bell-note quite undistinguishable from theevening tolling of the tui. It occasionally, but not often,sounded the rich organ-note—short, but of surpassing sweet-ness—which I have described in my account of the NorthIsland Crow (Birds of New Zealand, i., p. 2). In additionto all this it has a soft note, in repetition very like the lowwhimper of the Huia, and, more rarely, a more exact simula-tion of a hollow cough than that of the Tui. I know nothingof the history of the bird before it came to me, or whether itwas brought up from the nest or not, but I was often inclinedto think that, as a caged bird, it had been exercising somenatural power of mimicry. Its usual*food consisted of cookedpotato, boiled rice, and soaked bread, but it took Coprosmaand other ripe berries with avidity, and seemed to relish all Inmsinjiitms f$m Hjtwlnnb %n$ttiuhf Vol. xxv., PLY a c c o mjo a. ny Si r nil ers ~p asp
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