Best. — Maori Forest Lore. 481 



The kolako or ciow has reappeared of late at Rua-tahuna. It is also 

 seen in the Waioeka district, and on the ranges near Opouriao. 



The word kannca denotes the female parent of birds and animals. The 

 term punua, says Paitini, is applied to young birds after they commence to 

 flv. Pitaketake is applied not only to chicks, young birds, but also to young 



pigs- 



Pitongatonga is a name of the pikipihi bird. 



There is more ritual pertaining to Tane than to any other god of the 



Tuhoean pantheon, not even excepting the dread, all-powerful Tu. For 



Tane was omnipotent in his realm, the forest ; and who knows but that 



he is Tan, the cloud-bird, a high god of the old-time sojourners on the 



shores of the Indian Ocean ! 



Here endeth the lore of the Whare Mata — or, rather, such fragments 

 thereof as we have collected in the forests of Tuhoeland ; collected during 

 many long tramps over forest ranges, by many camp-fires, within the pri- 

 mitive dwellings of the Child of Tamatea and the tents of an alien people ; 

 collected from those who followed the ancient art of the fowler in the days 

 of their vouth, from those who knew the forest as no w^hite man knows it. 



Art. LIII. — Classification of Verse. 

 By Johannes C. Andersen. 



[Read before the Philosophical Institute of Ganterburij. '2nd Jane, 1909.] 



The Stress-unit. 



Section I. 



1. The " stress-unit " is the smallest regularly recurring period or unit in a 

 verse of poetry, tiie name being here used instead of the usual name " foot."" 

 The unit may be altogether silent, or it may contain from one to four or 

 even five syllables, the last syllable bearing the stress when stress is present. 



2. As it is commonly held that the stress may fall on any syllable of a 

 unit, the following remarks are offered as reasons for suggesting that it 

 always normally falls on the last : further, that all apparent varieties of 

 units are closely allied, and spring from a common source. It will be 

 attempted to show that all units may be resolved to the two-syllabled unit, 

 commonly called the " iamb." which unit is capable naturally of expansion 

 to the three-syllabled and four-syllabled units. As the stress is held to 

 fall always on the last syllable of a unit, a unit will vary only in having 

 less or more syllables ; and for convenience a two-syllabled unit will be 

 called a " duple umt." a three-syllabled a " triple unit," and a four-syllabled 

 a " quadruple unit." 



3. As mention of the various '" feet " must be made during the discussion, 

 the symbols and names are here given, the sign -— - representing an un- 

 accented syllable, and — an accented, or stressed. 



— -' Pyrrhic. — -.^ — Auapest. 



— — Spondee. — — ^ Amphibrach. 

 -^ — Iamb. — ^^ ^_- Dactyl. 



— — Trochee. — ^- ^ — Choriamb. 



16— Trans. 



