[Native name.] A grallatorial bird (Rhinochetus jubatus) of unusual type, peculiar to New Caledonia.
1862. Lond. Rev., Aug., 30. The little Kagu … a newly-discovered bird from New Caledonia.
1883. Cassell’s Nat. Hist., IV. 175. Both the Kagu and the Sun Bittern … go through, even in captivity, the extraordinary antics which seem to be characteristic of the Crane family throughout the globe.
1893. Newton, Dict. Birds, 472. The Kagu … is rather a long-legged bird, about as large as an ordinary Fowl.
