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| Taxonomy |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Meliphagidae |
| Genera: | Prosthermadera |
| Species: | novaeseelandiae |
| Sub Species: | novaeseelandiae, chathamensis |
| Other common names: — |
| Parson bird, poe bee-eater, New Zealand creeper, koko, poe–bird. |
| Description: — |
| Endemic bird: |
| 30 cm., male, 120 g., female, 90 g., Looks black but in the light has green, bluish-purple and bronze colouring, lacy collar of white filaments and white throat tufts, black legs and curved black bill. |
| Where to find: — |
| Common throughout New Zealand but scarce east of the Alps in the South Island. |
| Poetry: — |
“Me he korokoro tui”.
“How eloquent he is; he has the
throat of a Tui”. |
| Illustration description: — |
Cook, James, 1728–1779, A voyage towards the South Pole, and round the world : performed in His Majesty’s ships the Resolution and Adventure, in the years 1772, 1773, 1774, and 1775 written by James Cook, Commander of the Resolution. In which is included Captain Furneaux’s narrative of his proceedings in the Adventure during the separation of the ships. In two volumes. Ilustrated with maps and charts, and a variety of portraits ... and views ... drawn during the voyage by Mr. Hodges..., 1777.
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| Reference(s): — |
| Speech taught to a tame Tui to welcome visitors to a marae from Sir George Grey’s Poetry of New Zealanders, quoted in Sir Walter Lawry Buller’s Bird of New Zealand, 1888, Volume 1, pp 96–97. Translation by Henry Stowell (Hare Hongi) from New Zealand Song Birds, Johannes C. Andersen, 1926, pp 137-138. |
| Page date & version: — |
| Tuesday, 4 September, 2007; ver200506 |
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