`Catalogue of Vienna Exhibition': Ngaio: wood light, white and tough, used for gun-stocks. A little black-and-whitebird with a large head; it is very tame, and has a shortmelancholy song. See early quotations. See Hemp.
146): Yellow-legged minahs, tamest of all Australianbirds. Taylor, `Te Ika a Maui,' p. 173: I took care to tell them that the rangatira, or `chief'missionaries, would come out with the settlers. This is an erect species, growing15 feet high.
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