mockien.

1903 N.Z. Illustr. Mag. 8 355 As the first sun-ray tipped the hill, the mocky's call sounded.

1903 Otago Witness (Dunedin, N.Z.) 18 Nov. 68 I can hear the mokis and other birds singing outside.

a1917 E. Studholme in E. C. Studholme Te Waimate (1954) 307 Then the Moki's sweet song peals out like a bell.

1933 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) 9 Sept. 15 Bell bird.—Mako-mako, or Moki-mok... The name is still sometimes used [in Canterbury]; but the bird is now generally called a ‘Mokky’.

1935 E. Hodgkinson in A. E. Currie Centennial Treasury Otago Verse (1949) 33 The forest rings with tuis' and mokis' chiming.

1946 Jrnl. Polynesian Soc. 55 147 Because some folk thought mockie was short for makomako, a name of the bell-bird (korimako) in some parts, some thought it was the korimako which was the mimic.

1974 M. Anderson Mary-Lou 47 The bellbirds sometimes called Mockie, (which is a corruption of their Maori name mako) that visit our garden are ridiculously tame.

1985 Reader's Digest Bk. N.Z. Birds 290 Bellbird Anthornis melanura... Korimako, makomako, mockie.