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Theverb pihi means begin to grow ; pi means youngof birds, also the flow of the tide. The `Century' Dictionary gives ProfessorGreville as the origin of the name but Professor RobertK. 80: The Shea-oak (a corruption of sheak, the native name for this,or a similar tree, in Van Diemen's Land) is used chiefly forshingles. The eggs markthe converging lines just as clearly as the birds, for thepartridge-pigeon lays an egg much more like that of a quailthan a pigeon, and lays, quail fashion, on the ground.

See Dove-Petrel. 262: An `overlander,'--for, as you havn't any of the breed in NewZealand, I'll explain what that is,--is Queensland-English fora long-distance drover; and a rough, hard life it generally is. , and numerous other species ofMonocanthus. , `Narrative of Edward Crewe,' p.