A small quantity has an exhilaratingeffect, and pidgery was highly prized. Between them they lambed down more shearersand drovers than all the rest on the river. The aborigines call it`Beleck-Beleck,' and whites call it the `lyre-bird' from theshape of its tail; the ornithologists have named itMenura. South-Island W.
a sudden stop. I lately measuredan apparently sound one, and found it 21 feet in circumferenceat 8 feet from the ground and 87 feet to the first branches. 44: Melopsittacus Undulatus. See Currant.