tai</i> are blended together into one dark
indivisible green."

<hw>Kawau</hw>, <i>n</i>. Maori name for a Shag,
<i>Phalacrocorax novae-hollandiae</i>, Steph.

1888. W. L. Buller, `Birds of New Zealand,' vol. ii.
p. 145:

[Description given.]

<hw>Kea</hw>, <i>n</i>. a parrot of New Zealand, <i>Nester
notabilis</i>, Gould. For its habits see quotations.

1862. J. Von Haast, `Exploration of Head Waters of Waitaki,
1862,'-in `Geology of Westland' (published 1879), p. 36:

"What gave still greater interest to the spot was the presence
of a number of large green alpine parrots (<i>Nestor
notabilis</i>), the kea of the natives, which visited
continually the small grove of beech-trees near our camp."

1880. `Zoologist' for February, p. 57:

"On the 4th of November last the distinguished surgeon,
Mr. John Wood, F.R.S., exhibited before the Pathological
Society of London the colon of a sheep, in which the operation
known as Colotomy had been performed by a Parrot . . . the
species known as the `Kea' by the Maoris, the `Mountain Parrot'
of the colonists, <i>Nestor notabilis</i> of Gould. Only five
species . . . are known, one of which (<i>Nestor productus</i>)
has lately become extinct; they only occur in New Zealand and
Norfolk Island. They were formerly classed among the
<i>Trichoglossinae</i> or brush-tongued parrots . . . more
nearly allied to true <i>Psittaci</i> . . . Its ordinary food
consists of berries and insects; but since its Alpine haunts
have been reached by the tide of civilization, it has acquired
a taste for raw flesh, to obtain which it even attacks living
animals."

1882. T. H. Potts, `Out in the Open,' p. 176:

"We have the hoary-headed nestors, amongst which are found the
noisy honey-loving kaka, the hardy kea, that famous sheep-
killer and flesh-eater, the dread of many an Alpine sheep
farmer."

1888. W. L. Buller, `Birds of New Zealand,' vol. i.
p. 166:

"<i>Nestor notabilis</i>, Gould, Kea-parrot, Mountain-parrot of
the Colonists."

1888. `Antipodean Notes,' p. 74:

"The Kea picks the fat which surrounds the kidneys. . . .
Various theories have been started to explain how this parrot
has become carnivorous."
[Two pages are devoted to the question.]

1889. Cassell's `Picturesque Australasia,' vol. iv. p. 19:

"The kea-parrot. . . . The kea is pretty to look at, having
rich red and green plumage, but it is a cruel bird. It is said
that it will fasten on the back of a