344: Mankind were wrong, it seems, in concluding that all swanswere white. It is saidthat the kea was in the habit of tearing it up to get at thegrubs which harbour within the mass, and that mistaking deadsheep for vegetable sheep it learned the taste of mutton. Very common in all the colonies. It was whilereturning to camp from fishing that I noticed this bird, whichappeared of solitary habits.
(b) The Plural of the Word. 60: As [the race] sweeps past the Stand every year in a closebright mass the colours, of the different clubs, are asdazzling and gay in the sun as a brilliant flight of galahsand rosellas. Potts, `Out in the Open,' `New Zealand CountryJournal,' vol. (Australasia)-- Ortygometra tabuensis, Finsch.
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