out, and when any
other of his tribe comes about, he bristles up his feathers,
and fights for his crumbs. . . . He is not at all pretty,
like the Australian or European robin, but a little sober black
and grey bird, with long legs, and a heavy paunch and big head;
like a Quaker, grave, but cheerful and spry withal." [This is
the Robin of New Zealand.]

1866. Lady Barker, `Station Life in New Zealand,' p. 93:

"The New Zealand robin was announced, and I could see only a
fat little ball of a bird, with a yellowish-white breast."

1869. J. Gould, `Birds of Australia' [Supplement]:

<i>Drymodes superciliaris</i>, Gould, Eastern Scrub Robin.

<i>Petroica cerviniventris</i>, Gould, Buff-sided Robin.

<i>Eopsaltria capito</i>, Gould, Large-headed Robin.

<i>E. leucura</i>, Gould, White-tailed Robin.

1872. A. Domett, `Ranolf,' p. 239:

"The large red-breasted robin, kinsman true
Of England's delicate high-bred bird of home."

1880. Mrs.Meredith, `Tasmanian Friends and Foes,' p. 123:

"The Robin is certainly more brilliantly beautiful than his
English namesake. . . . Black, red and white are the
colours of his dress, worn with perfect taste. The black is
shining jet, the red, fire, and the white, snow. There is a
little white spot on his tiny black-velvet cap, a white bar
across his pretty white wings, and his breast is, a living
flame of rosy, vivid scarlet."

1888. Cassell's `Picturesque Australasia,' vol. ii. p. 235:

"Here, too, the `careful robin eyes the delver's toil,' and as
he snatches the worm from the gardener's furrow, he turns to us
a crimson-scarlet breast that gleams in the sun beside the
golden buttercups like a living coal. The hues of his English
cousin would pale beside him ineffectual."

1896. `The Melburnian,' Aug. 28, p. 54:

"The flame-breasted robin no longer lingers showing us his
brilliant breast while he sings out the cold grey afternoons
in his tiny treble. He has gone with departing winter."

<hw>Rock-Cod</hw>, <i>n</i>. called also <i>Red-Cod</i> in New
Zealand, <i>Pseudophycis barbatus</i>, Gunth., family
<i>Gadidae</i>. In New Zealand the <i>Blue-Cod</i>(q.v.) is
also called <i>Rock-Cod</i>. Species of the allied genus
<i>Lotella</i> are also called <i>Rock-Cod</i> in New South
Wales. See <i>Beardy</i> and <i>Ling</i>.

1883. `Royal Commission on the Fisheries of Tasmania,' p. 40:

"A variety known to fishermen as the deep-water, or Cape-cod.
. . . It wo