The grey duck, less easy to approach, rises noisily before boat or canoe comes within gunshot.

The olive and brown, hoarse-voiced ka-ka, a large, wild parrot, and green, crimson-headed parakeets, may swell the list.

Such is a "papa" river! and there are many such.
Features for which the traveller in New Zealand should be prepared are the far-reaching prospects over which the eye can travel, the sight and sound of rapid water, and the glimpses of snow high overhead, or far off--glimpses to be caught in almost every landscape in the South Island and in many of the most beautiful of the North.

Through the sunny, lucid atmosphere it is no uncommon thing to see mountain peaks sixty and eighty miles away diminished in size by distance, but with their outlines clearly cut.

From great heights you may see much longer distances, especially on very early mornings of still midsummer days.
Then, before the air is heated or troubled or tainted, but when night seems to have cooled and purged it from all impurity, far-off ridges and summits stand out clean, sharp and vivid.