The tui, or parson bird (Prosthemadera novæ zealandiæ.)
Large numbers of New Zealand birds unite in the spring in singing a magnificent Song of Dawn, which generally ceases when the sun has fairly risen, but individuals sing at intervals through the day.
CHAPTER VII.
The details we have thus given will enable the reader to form a conception of the state of society in the country in which Rutherford now found himself imprisoned.
The spot in the northern island of New Zealand, in which the village lay where his residence was eventually fixed, cannot be exactly ascertained, from the account which he gives of his journey to it from the coast. It is evident, however, from the narrative, that it was too far in the interior to permit the sea to be seen from it.