tuin.
/ˈtuːiː/ A New Zealand bird, Prosthematodera novæ-zelandiæ: = parson bird n. 1, mockingbird n. 2.
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1832 A. Earle Narr. Resid. N.Z. 174 The only sounds which broke the calm were the wild notes of the tooe (or New Zealand blackbird).
1835 W. Yate Acct. N.Z. (ed. 2) ii. 52 Tui. This remarkable bird, from the versatility of its talents for imitation, has by some been called ‘the Mocking Bird’.
1857 C. Hursthouse N.Z. I. 118 The most common and certainly the most facetious individual of the ornithology, is the Tui (Parson-Bird).
1866 M. A. Barker Let. in Station Life N.Z. 93 The tui, or parson-bird, most respectable and clerical-looking in its glossy black suit..and white wattles of very slender feathers.
1869 G. H. Kingsley Sport & Trav. (1900) iv. 64 Singing birds, some like the New Zealand tui.
1884 T. Bracken Lays of Maori 101 I hear the swell Of Nature's psalms through tree and bush, From tui, blackbird, finch and thrush.
1908 Auckland Weekly News 17 Dec. 50/1 It is only occasionally that the silence is broken by the liquid notes of the tui and the bell-bird.
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