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Kea  n.  (Zool.) A large New Zealand parrot (Nestor notabilis), notorious for having acquired the habit of killing sheep; called also mountain parrot.






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"Kea" Quotes from Famous Books



... white surf-line of the shore of Hawaii; above that the belt of trade-clouds, and next, eighty miles away, rearing their stupendous hulks out of the azure sky, tipped with snow, wreathed with cloud, trembling like a mirage, the peaks of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa hung poised on the wall ...
— The Cruise of the Snark • Jack London

... maps make it difficult to deal with the question. The area, so far as actually ascertained by the Fathers of the Mission, roughly speaking, covers, and seems to extend also some distance to the south or south-west of a triangle, the western apex of which is the junction of the river Kea with the river Aduala (a tributary of the St. Joseph), [2] whose north-eastern apex is Mt. Albert Edward, and whose south-eastern apex is Mt. Scratchley. It includes the valley of the Aduala river and its streams (except those flowing into it from the north in the region of the western apex ...
— The Mafulu - Mountain People of British New Guinea • Robert W. Williamson



Words linked to "Kea" :   genus Nestor, Mauna Kea, parrot, Nestor



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