1866. Lady Barker, `Station Life in New Zealand,' p. 93:
"The tui, or parson-bird, most respectable and clerical-looking in its glossy black suit, with a singularly trim and dapper air, and white wattles of very slender feathers—indeed they are as fine as hair—curled coquettishly at each side of his throat, exactly like bands."
1888. Dr. Thomson, apud Buller, `Birds of New Zealand,' vol. i. p. 95:
"Sitting on the branch of a tree, as a <i>pro tempore</i> pulpit, he shakes his head, bending to one side and then to another, as if he remarked to this one and to that one; and once and again, with pent-up vehemence, contracting his muscles and drawing himself together, his voice waxes loud, in a manner to awaken sleepers to their senses."
1890. W. Colenso, `Bush Notes,' `Transactions of the New Zealand Institute,' vol. xxxiii. art. lvii. p. 482:
"It is very pleasing to hear the deep rich notes of the parson-bird—to see a pair of them together diligently occupied in extracting honey from the tree-flowers, the sun shining on their glossy sub-metallic dark plumage."
<hw>Partridge-Pigeon</hw>, <i>n</i>. an Australian pigeon.
1847. L. Leichhardt, `Overland Expedition,' p. 8:
"The partridge-pigeon (<i>Geophaps scripta</i>) abounded in the
Acacia groves."
<hw>Partridge-wood</hw>, <i>n</i>. another name for the <i>Cabbage-Palm</i> (q.v.).