d represented there by two
species. See <i>Coach-whip Bird</i>. The name comes from
the bird's peculiar note. (Grk. <i>psophowdaes</i>, noisy.)

<hw>Ptilonorhynchinae</hw>, <i>n</i>. pl. scientific name
assigned to the Australian group of birds called the
<i>Bower-birds</i> (q.v.). (Grk. <i>ptilon</i>, a feather,
<i>rhunchos</i>, a beak.)

<hw>Pudding-ball</hw>, <i>n</i>. a fish; corruption of the
aboriginal name of it, <i>puddinba</i> (q.v.), by the law
of Hobson-Jobson.

1847. J. D. Lang, `Cooksland,' p. 96:

"The species of fish that are commonest in the Bay (Moreton)
are mullet, bream, puddinba (a native word corrupted by the
colonists into pudding-ball) . . . The puddinba is like a
mullet in shape, but larger, and very fat; it is esteemed a
great delicacy."

1896. `The Australasian,' Aug. 28, p. 407 col. 4:

"`Pudding-ball' is the name of a fish. It has nothing to do
with pudding, nothing with any of the various meanings of ball.
The fish is not specially round. The aboriginal name was
`pudden-ba.' <i>Voila tout</i>."

<hw>Pukeko</hw>, <i>n</i>. Maori name for the bird
<i>Porphyrio melanonotus</i>, the <i>Swamp-Hen</i> (q.v.).

1896. `Otago Witness,' June 11, p. 51:

"Two <i>pukaki</i> [sic] flew across their path."

<hw>Punga</hw>, <i>n</i>. the trunk of the tree-fern that is
known as <i>Cyathea medullaris</i>, the "black fern " of the
settlers. It has an edible pith.

1855. Rev. R. Taylor, `Te Ika a Maui,' p. 115:

"Some of the trees were so alarmed that they held down
their heads, and have never been able to hold them up since;
amongst these were the ponga (a fern-tree) and the kareao
(supple-jack), whose tender shoots are always bent."

1888. J. White, `Ancient History of Maori,' vol. iv.
p. 191:

"When Tara-ao left his pa and fled from the vengeance of
Karewa, he and his people were hungry and cut down ponga,
and cooked and ate them."

1888. J. Adams, `Transactions of New Zealand Institute,'
vol. xxi. art. ii. p. 36:

"The size and beauty of the puriri, nikau, and ponga
(<i>Cyathea medullaris</i>) are worthy of notice."

1892. E. S. Brookes, `Frontier Life,' p. 139:

"The Survey Department graded a zigzag track up the side to the
top, fixing in punga steps, so that horses could climb up."

<hw>Punga-punga</hw>, <i>n</i>. Maori name for the pollen of
the <i>raupo</i> (q.v.).

1880. W. Colenso, `Transactions of New Zealand Institute,'
vol. xiii. art. i. p. 28: