1896. `Otago Witness,' Jan. 23, p. 42, col. 3:
"All this after a very excited `korero' on the empty dray, with the surging and exciting crowd around."
<hw>Korimako</hw>, <i>n</i>. Maori name for the <i>Bell-Bird</i> (q.v.).
1855. Rev. R. Taylor, `Te Ika a Maui,' p. 402:
"The korimako, or kokorimako (<i>Anthornis melanura</i>). This bird is the sweetest songster of New Zealand, but is not distinguished by its plumage, which is a yellowish olive with a dark bluish shade on each side of the head."
Ibid. p. 75:
"In the first oven [at the Maori child's naming feast] a korimako was cooked; this is the sweetest singing bird of New Zealand; it was eaten that the child might have a sweet voice and be an admired orator."
1872. A. Domett, `Ranolf,' p. 202:
"The <i>korimako</i>, sweetest bird
Of all that are in forest heard."
1888. W. W. Smith, `Transactions of New Zealand Institute,' vol. XXI. art. xxi. p. 213: