See Bower-bird. A small tree,ten to thirty feet high; trunk unusually slender; branchesspreading in a fan-shaped manner, which makes it of veryornamental appearance; flower white, profusely produced. Thebroken colour of the plumage suggested a sparkling jewel. in the language of the NewZealanders; moko being the general term for thetattooing on the face, and whakairo for that on thebody.
Wakefield, `Adventures in New Zealand,' vol. ow all their grey feathers were flushed withthe sunset light, their coloured breasts deepening into darkestruby, they seemed like loosed spirits. Gould's `Birds of Australia,' vol. punctatus, Temm.
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