478 Transactions. 



Leaves of the species of Astelia termed mauri were in former times 

 woven into fillets and worn by girls. 



The rawpeti is Solarium nigrum. The berries and leaves thereof are eaten 

 by the Natives, the latter being cooked as greens. 



The retoreto is a water-plant, Potamogeton Cheesemanii. 



The ti para, a cultivated species of Cordyline, is certainly not C. terminalis. 

 says Mr. Cheeseman. The latter is difficult to rear even about Auckland, 

 so easily affected is it by frost. The Eev. H. Williams informs me that 

 the ti para of Tuhoe is found at Moa-whango. Mr. Percy Smith states that 

 it resembles the ti tawhiti. Colenso mentions ti para as an unnamed species 

 of Cordyline. A plant growing in my garden at Rua-toki has now (August, 

 1909) a stem about 30 in. high, and has about a dozen young plants or 

 shoots growing up from the base thereof. The plant is four years old. 



The tumingi is probably the same as mingimingi. 



The niaru (both vowels long) is Sparganium antipodurn. 



The name upoko-tangata is loosely applied locally to both Mariscus 

 ustulatus and Scirpus rnaritimus. 



The tamatea appears to be termed " nigger-head " by settlers. 



The outside leaves of harakeke, Cordyline, and of all plants, &c., the 

 leaves of which are termed wha, are called pakawha. 



Old superstitions die hard. When a Tuhoe Native plants imported 

 fruit-trees, he will not eat the first crop of fruit borne by such trees, but 

 simply leaves it, or throws it away. Were it eaten, then the trees would 

 bear no more fruit in future years, according to local belief. 



We have seen that trees were measured by the pae method. A famous 

 saying of Te Hau-nui is preserved by the local Natives. Te Hau-nui was 

 annoyed by some presumptuous remark made by a person of inferior rank 

 to himself. His word being discredited thereby, he remarked, " Kaua e 

 whakateka te pae tahi ki te pae wha " (Let not the single pae [tree of small 

 girth] cast discredit on the four pae [tree of large girth] ). To which his 

 adversary replied, "Ahakoa to nui, he nui puwhawha " (Though big, yet you 

 are hollow or decayed internally). The Maori is apt at such rejoinders as 

 the above. 



The apparatus already described in Part I as having been employed 

 for the purpose of turning over heavy logs was termed a kauwhiti or tuwhiti. 



Taraumu is another name for a " scarf " in tree-felhng. 



The toronu (torongu) caterpillar that destroys the sweet-potato plant 

 is Nyctemera annulata. 



Additional Bird Notes. 



The kakapo disappeared from the Tuhoe district soon after the arrival 

 of Europeans on these shores, and before any white folks settled near the 

 district. Paitini, born about 1843, says that these birds disappeared before 

 his time, which seems to mean that they were no longer seen in 1850. He 

 says that the kakapo, on returning from their feeding-ground, collected at 

 their ivhawharua to go through the performance described in Part II. This 

 was during the night. 



The cry of the kareke was looked upon as an omen of bad weather. 



Kawau. — Young shags were taken by hand from the nest before they 

 could fly. The species known as papua is probably the same as mapua, 

 given in Williams's Dictionary. 



Whakamoe koko. — Taking the koko by hand on frosty nights. Care 

 had to be taken not to frighten these birds when searching for and marking 



