Bottom, v. Rolf Boldrewood, `Melbourne Memories,' c. Hooker (see quotation, 1860), says, I believeadapted from the North-American Sheack. Curiously,Gould, having already assigned the name Morepork toPodargus, in describing the
Dell-bird, n. Medicine-tree, i. Tena koe, a Maori salutation used in North Island ofNew Zealand. `Grammar and Vocabulary of Language of New Zealand'(Church Missionary Society), p.