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Tawhai, Tawhairaunui,Black-birch of Auckland and Otago (from colour of bark),Fagus fusca, Hook. muricata,Shaw. Acongener of the English winter-green, or American checkerberry,with white berries, in taste resembling gooseberries; calledalso Chucky-chucky (q. ' In the`Western Australian Almanack' for 1842, quoted in J.

Both among birds and plants new species have beendistinguished and named: and there has been not a little changein nomenclature. The metaphor is frompigeon-shooting, where the bird being let loose in front of agood shot is as good as dead. rufigularis, Gould. `Otago Witness,' Dec.