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In fineweather the bush along the south shores of Lake Brunnerre-echoes with the rich notes of the tui and korimako, althoughboth species have disappeared from former haunts east of theAlps. The name is of Americanorigin, originally given by the negroes to a cake made ofIndian corn (maize). [Hawkesworth spelt it, Heppahs; he = Maori definitearticle. [The birds, however, have been since this date furtherdifferentiated, and are now all classed in other genera, exceptthe present species.

The Sand-Mullet in Tasmania is Mugil cephalotus,Cuv. The wood is ofa slightly reddish colour, close-grained, but brittle, andpeculiarly fragrant when burnt. See Larrikin. Colenso says, in his pamphlet on `Nomenclature'(1883), p.