Cassell's `Picturesque Australasia,' vol. The miro toi-toi (muscicapa toi-toi)is a bird not larger than the tom-tit. There are three species--The Fern-bird-- Sphenoecus punctatus, Gray. (2) To obstruct business at any meeting, chiefly by long-windedspeeches.
47: The underwood is in general so thick and so bound together bythat kind of creeping shrub called supple-jack, interwoven inall directions, as to be absolutely impenetrable. Taylor, `Te Ika a Maui,' p. 114: Gentle little squatter-pigeons cooed lovingly in answer totheir mates on all sides. 132: Another native keeps a grog-shop, and sells hiswaipero, as he says, to Hourangi drunkenpakehas.
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