They were regarded by ourcompanions as a prize, and were taken accordingly to be caged,and instructed in the art of whistling tunes, in which they aregreat adepts. Maori name for two New Zealand erector sub-scandent flowering trees, often embracing trunks offorest trees and strangling them: the Northern Rata,Metrosideros robusta, A. See Bean. Hornung [Title]: A Bride from the Bush.
blade of a miner'sknife used for picking lumps of gold out of the stone. Lumholtz, `Among Cannibals,' p. Those of the genus Cracticus are calledButcher-birds (q. --men, in fact, who workamong timber continually, sometimes felling and splitting,sometimes sawing.
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