"<i>Anthornis melanura</i>, korimako or bell-bird. In fine weather the bush along the south shores of Lake Brunner re-echoes with the rich notes of the tui and korimako, although both species have disappeared from former haunts east of the Alps."
<hw>Koromiko</hw>, <i>n</i>. a white flowering arborescent Veronica of New Zealand, <i>Veronica salicifolia</i>, Forst., <i>N.O. Scrophularineae</i>.
1855. Rev. R. Taylor, `Te Ika a Maui,' P. 454:
"Koromiko, a very ornamental plant, but disappearing before the horse. It bears a tapering-shaped flower of a purplish white."
1872. A. Domett, `Ranolf,' p. 2:
"Just a ditch,
With flowering koromiko rich."
1884. T. Bracken, `Lays of Maori,' p. 21:
"The early breeze
That played among the koromiko's leaves."
1889. Vincent Pyke, `Wild Will Enderby,' p. 16:
"Fostered by the cool waters of a mountain rivulet, the koromiko grows by the side of the poisonous tutu bushes."