; generally corrupted intoKaio, in South Island. Fat-hen, n. 104: The kanguroo, though it resembles the jerboa in thepeculiarity of using only the hinder legs in progression,does not belong to that genus. 149: Then an old 'possum would sing out, or a black-furredflying-squirrel--pongos, the blacks call `em--would come sailingdown from the top
`An Ordinance for imposing a tax on Raupo Houses,Session II. Whitebeard, n. Reischek, in Buller's `Birds of New Zealand,' vol. the scientific name for thetypical genus of Macropodidae, established by Shaw in1800.