aboriginal name for a pigeon,fat-breasted, and very good eating.
1852. G. C. Mundy, `Our Antipodes' (3rd ed. 1855), c. vii.p. 170:
«In the grassland, a sort of ground pigeon, called the dudu,a very handsome little bird, got up and went off like apartridge, strong and swift, re-alighting on the ground, andreturning to cover.»