ptain Cook."

1880. W. Colenso, `Transactions of New Zealand Institute,'
vol. xiii. art. i. p. 31 [`On the Vegetable Food of the
Ancient New Zealanders']:

"The leaves of several smaller plants were also used as
vegetables; but the use of these in modern times, or during the
last forty or fifty years, was commonly superseded by that of
the extremely useful and favourite plant--the Maori cabbage,
<i>Brassica oleracea</i>, introduced by Cook (nani of the
Maoris at the north, and rearea at the south), of which they
carefully sowed the seeds."

<hw>Maori-chief</hw>, <i>n</i>. name given to a New Zealand
Flathead-fish, <i>Notothenia maoriensis</i>, or
<i>coriiceps</i>. The name arises from marks on the fish
like tattooing. It is a very dark, almost black fish.

1877. P. Thomson, `Transactions of the New Zealand
Institute,' vol. x. art. xliv. p. 330:

"Some odd fishes now and then turn up in the market, such as
the Maori-chief, cat-fish, etc."

1878. Ibid. vol. xi. art. lii. p. 381:

"That very dark-skinned fish, the Maori-chief, <i>Notothenia
Maoriensis</i> of Dr. Haast, is not uncommon, but is rarely
seen more than one at a time."

1896. `The Australasian,' Aug. 28, p. 407, col. 5:

"Resemblances are strange things. At first it would seem
improbable that a fish could be like a man, but in Dunedin a
fish was shown to me called Maori Chief, and with the exercise
of a little imagination it was not difficult to perceive the
likeness. Nay, some years ago, at a fishmonger's in Melbourne,
a fish used to be labelled with the name of a prominent
Victorian politician now no more. There is reason, however,
to believe that art was called in to complete the likeness."

<hw>Maori-head</hw>, <i>n</i>. a swamp tussock, so called from
a fancied resemblance to the head of a Maori. (Compare
<i>Black-boy</i>.) It is not a grass, but a sedge
(<i>carex</i>).

1882. T. H. Potts, `Out in the Open,' p. 169:

"A boggy creek that oozed sluggishly through rich black soil,
amongst tall raupo, maori-heads, and huge flax-bushes."

1892. W. McHutcheson, `Camp Life in Fiordland,' p. 34:

"Amid the ooze and slime rose a rank growth of `Maori heads.'"

<hw>Maori-hen</hw>, <i>n</i>. Same as <i>Weka</i> (q.v.).

<hw>Maoriland</hw>, <i>n</i>. a modern name for New Zealand.
It is hardly earlier than 1884. If the word, or anything like
it, such as <i>Maoria</i>, was used earlier, it meant "the
Maori parts of New Zealand."