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Betcherrygah, n. 80: The place received its name from a number of large totaratrees. (Called also Native Sarsaparilla. `Grammar and Vocabulary of Language of New Zealand'(Church Missionary Society), p.

name given in Victoria andTasmania to the Rock-Whiting, Odax richardsoni,Gunth. `Hawkesworth's Voyages' (Cook's First Voyage; atTahiti, 1769), vol. In pastoralists' language of NewZealand, above the snow-line is land covered by snow inwinter, but free in summer. With its bill, which is like a duck's but narrower, itburrows into an ant's-hill, and then with its long, whip-like,sticky tongue, draws the ants into its mouth by hundreds.