to all the colonies of Australasia.

<hw>Piopio</hw>, <i>n</i>. Maori name for a thrush of New
Zealand, <i>Turnagra crassirostris</i>, Gmel. See
<i>Thrush</i>.

<hw>Pipe</hw>, <i>n</i>. an obsolete word, explained in
quotations.

1836. Ross, `Hobart Town Almanack,' p. 105:

"These were the days of `pipes.' Certain supposed home
truths . . . were indited in clear and legible letters on a
piece of paper which was then rolled up in the form of a pipe,
and being held together by twisting at one end was found at the
door of the person intended to be instructed on its first
opening in the morning."

1852. J. West, `History of Tasmania,' vol. i. p. 107:

"Malice or humour in the early days expressed itself in what
were called <i>pipes</i>--a ditty either taught by repetition
or circulated on scraps of paper: the offences of official men
were thus hitched into rhyme. These pipes were a substitute
for the newspaper, and the fear of satire checked the
haughtiness of power."

<hw>Pipe-fish</hw>, <i>n</i>. common fishname. The species
present in Australia and New Zealand is <i>Ichthyocampus
filum</i>, Gunth., family <i>Syngnathidae</i>, or
<i>Pipe-fishes</i>.

<hw>Piper</hw>, <i>n</i>. an Auckland name for the
<i>Garfish</i> (q.v.). The name is applied to other
fishes in the Northern Hemisphere.

1872. Hutton and Hector, `Fishes of New Zealand,' p. 118:

"Angling for garfish in Auckland Harbour, where it is known as
the piper, is graphically described in `The Field,' London,
Nov. 25, 1871.
. . . the pipers are `just awfu' cannibals,' and you will be
often informed on Auckland wharf that `pipers is deeth on piper.'"

<hw>Pipi</hw>, <i>n</i>. Maori name of a shellfish, sometimes
(erroneously) called the cockle, <i>Mezodesma
novae-zelandiae</i>.

1820. `Grammar and Vocabulary of Language of New Zealand'
(Church Missionary Society), p. 193:

"Pipi, <i>s</i>. a cockle."

1881. J. L.Campbell, `Poenamo,' p. 107:

"With most deliciously cooked kumeras, potatoes and peppies"
[sic].

Ibid. p. 204:

"The <i>dernier ressort</i>--fern-root,
flavoured with fish and pippies."

1882. T. H. Potts, `Out in the Open,' p.25:

"Each female is busily employed in scraping the potatoes
thoroughly with pipi-shells."

<hw>Piping-Crow</hw>, <i>n</i>. name applied sometimes
to the <i>Magpie</i> (q.v.).

1845. `Voyage to Port Phillip,' etc., p. 53:

"The warbling melops and the piping crow,
The merry forest