1893. A. R. Wallace, `Australasia,' vol. i. p. 445:
"Another very interesting group of birds are the large dull colonial parrots of the genus Nestor, called kea or kaka by the natives from their peculiar cries. Their natural food is berries . . . but of late years the kea (<i>Nestor notabilis</i>), a mountain species found only in the South Island, has developed a curious liking for meat, and now attacks living sheep, settling on their backs and tearing away the skin and flesh to get at the kidney fat."
1895. `Otago Witness,' Dec. 26, p. 3, col. 1:
"There is in the Alpine regions of the South Island a plant popularly called the `vegetable sheep,' botanically named <i>Raoulia</i>. From the distance of even a few yards it looks like a sheep. It grows in great masses, and consists of a woolly vegetation. A large specimen of this singular plant was exhibited in the Colonial and Indian Exhibition. It is said that the kea was in the habit of tearing it up to get at the grubs which harbour within the mass, and that mistaking dead sheep for vegetable sheep it learned the taste of mutton. A more enterprising generation preferred its mutton rather fresher."
<hw>Kelp-fish</hw>, <i>n</i>. In New Zealand, also called <i>Butter-fish</i> (q.v.), <i>Coridodax pullus</i>, Forst. In Tasmania, <i>Odax baleatus</i>, Cuv. and Val.; called also <i>Ground Mullet</i> by the fishermen. In Victoria, <i>Chironemus marmoratus</i>, Gunth. <i>Coridodax</i> and <i>Odax</i> belong to the family <i>Labridae</i> or Wrasses, which comprises the <i>Rock-Whitings</i>; <i>Chironemus</i> to the family <i>Cirrhitidae</i>. The name is also given in New Zealand to another fish, the <i>Spotty</i> (q.v.). These fishes are all different from the Californian food- fishes of the same name.
1841. J. Richardson, `Description of Australian Fishes,' p. 148:
"This fish is known at Port Arthur by the appellation of `Kelp-fish,' I suppose from its frequenting the thickets of the larger fuci."
<hw>Kennedya</hw>, <i>n</i>. the scientific name of a genus of perennial leguminous herbs of the bean family-named, in 1804, after Mr. Kennedy, a gardener at Hammersmith, near London. There are seventeen species, all natives of Australia and Tasmania, many of them cultivated for the sake of their showy flowers and berries. Others lie near the ground like a vetch; <i>K. prostrata</i> is called the <i>Coral Pea</i> (q.v.), or <i>Bleeding Heart</i>, or <i>Native Scarlet Runner</i>, or <i>Running Postman</i>. Another species is called <i>Australian Sarsaparilla</i>. See <i>Sarsaparilla</i>.
1885. R. M. Praed, `The Head Station,' p. 294:
"Taking off his felt hat, he twisted round it a withe of crimson Kennedia, then put it on again."