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To dream that you are travelling and see a fence across the track in 

 iront of you is unlucky. • 



If, when going hunting, your dog stops on the right side of the track, 

 it is a sign of good luck ; if on the left side, then bad luck awaits you. Or 

 if a fisherman stops often on his way to the fishing-place he will have bad 

 luck. Or if he runs into many cobwebs spun across the track he will be 

 unlucky. If the first fish that takes the bob or hook is not landed, but 

 escapes, that brings bad luck for the fisherman, who returns home at once — 

 no use remaining longer. If the first fish seen (in taking the kokopu) is 

 secured, it is thrown aside ; not kept, nor yet returned to the water. That 

 act will bring good luck. If the signs of ill success only affect some of 

 the party, then those persons will quit fishing, but will carry the torches for 

 the others. 



To start in one's sleep and throw out both arms is a puhore. To dream 

 that one catches two birds at once is lucky. Again, if a person partakes 

 of tawaka, an edible species of agaricus, it will be useless for him to go 

 a-birding, for he will have no luck thereat. 



Kati ! AVe Avill cease from quoting these signs and tokens of yore ; the 

 reader shall be spared from perusing the remaining thousands. 



It is said by Natives that the torea (bird) knows when a storm is ap- 

 proaching, and at such times changes its cry to " Keria ! keria ! " 



Young op Birds. 



A few remarks : The young of water-birds, as of the parera, whio, and 

 weweia, are termed kmcaiwai. The term kuao (voung of animals) is some- 

 times applied to them, perhaps before they leave the nest. " Ka whanau 

 nga kuao o te parera, ka haere ki te wai kau ai, ka kiia i kona te ingoa he 

 kawaiwai." 



The young of land-birds are termed pi while they are being fed by the 

 parent birds, before they leave the nest ; but after they leave the nest and 

 are able to seek food they are called kukari and hukari until full-grown. 

 Some say, however, that kukari is applied only to the young of the koko 

 and rearea at the above-specified time. The term punua is sometimes 

 applied to young land-birds : " Ka hopukia te punua koko, ka akona ki te 

 korero, ka whakarawa.^^ The term pitaketake is applied to the young of 

 forest-birds before they leave the nest. 



Eggs are termed hua — in full, hua manu, or " bird-fruit." The shell 

 thereof is papapa, the yolk is toua and tohua (cf. tohua, "to be con- 

 ceived "). 



A bird's nest is termed kohanga and koivhanga. A fortified place, a pa, 

 was also often called a kohanga, wherein the- people dwelt in security. The 

 dangers to life were outside the nest, a fact that came home to the famous 

 chief Te Mai-taranui, what time he uttered his oft-quoted saying, " He 

 manu hou ahau, he pi ka rere,'''' and sank in death by the roaring falls of 

 Te Reinga. 



The nesting-period of birds is the month Hakihea of the Maori year, 

 which is about December. 



The wings of a bird are termed paihau by the Tuhoe folk, and sometimes 

 pakihau. Other words for " wing " are parirau, harirau, and pakau. The 

 local word for a bird's tail is kotore, while other terms for the same are 

 humaeko, hurumaeko, and kururemu ; whereas the tail of an animal is whiore 

 or More, and that of a fish huki or hiku. 



