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HONEYMOON , the first See also:month after See also:marriage . See also:Lord See also:Avebury in his Origin of See also:Civilization suggests that the seclusion usually associated with this See also:period is a survival of marriage by See also:capture, and answers to the period during which the See also:husband kept his wife in retirement, to prevent her from appealing to her relatives ' The See also:young of this See also:species has the See also:throat yellow . s W . A . See also:Forbes published a careful monograph of this genus in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1879, pp . 256-279 . ' This See also:bird, according to See also:Sir See also:Walter See also:Buller (Birds of New See also:Zealand, p . 88), while uttering its See also:wild notes, indulges in much gesticulation, which adds to the suggested resemblance . It has See also:great See also:power of See also:mimicry, and is a favourite cage-bird both with the natives and colonists . On one occasion, says Buller, he had addressed a large See also:meeting of Maories on a See also:matter of considerable See also:political importance, when " immediately on the conclusion of my speech, and before the old See also:chief to whom my arguments were chiefly addressed had See also:time to reply, a tui, whose netted cage hung to a rafter_ overhead, responded in a clear, emphatic way, ' Tito!' (false) . The circumstance naturally caused much merriment among my See also:audience, and quite upset the zravity of the See also:venerable old chief, Nepia Taratoa . ' Friend,' said he, laughing, ' your arguments are very See also:good; but my mokai is a very See also:wise bird. and he is not yet convinced!' " for See also:release . Others suggest that as the See also:moon commences to wane as soon as it is at its full, so does the mutual See also:affection of the wedded pair, the " honeymoon " (with this derivation) not necessarily referring to any definite period of time . |
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