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h the stereotyped appeal for work; and work being atthat hour impossible, they were sent to the travellers' hut forshelter and to 31: The pigeons are by far the most beautiful birds in the island;they are called bronze-winged pigeons. It is a thievish bird, greedy after everything that glistens;it frequently carries off spoons, forks, and the like, but italso breaks into hen-coops, and picks and sucks the eggs. [Close Season.

Coral-Fern, n. Hodgson, `Reminiscences of Australia,' p. New Zealand equivalent for theAustralian picking the eyes out, and peacocking. connivens, Lath.