Also kiwi-kiwi, kivi. [Maori.] The native New Zealand name of the APTERYX, now commonly used in English.
1835. W. Yate, Acc. New Zeal., 58 (Morris). Kiwi—the most remarkable and curious bird in New Zealand.
1852. Zoologist, X. 3409. On the Habits of the Kiwi-kiwi.
1873. Buller, Birds New Zeal. (1888), I. 237. Last Sunday I dined on stewed Kiwi, at the hut of a lonely gold-digger. Ibid., II. 313. Old experienced Kiwi-hunters. Ibid., 315. The heights of Rangitoto, where … there exists another Kiwi-preserve.
