moko-moko

n.

1) Maori name for the Bell-bird (q.v.), Anthornis melanura, Sparrm.

1888. A. W. Bathgate, `Sladen's Australian Ballads,' p. 22:

[Title]: «To the Moko-moko, or Bell-bird.»

[Footnote]: «Now rapidly dying out of our land,» sc. New Zealand.

2) Maori name for the lizard, Lygosoma ornatum, Gray,or Lygosoma moko, Durn. and Bib.

1820. `Grammar and Vocabulary of Language of New Zealand'(Church Missionary Society), p. 182:

«Moko-moko, a small lizard.»