CoLENSo. — On the Moa. 9S 



*Hinetemoa, — derived like Hinemoa (ante) but having a different 

 meaning.! 



*Te Awlieramoa, — this may mean, to siirromad a Moa or Moas, through 

 going behind ; or, to relate, or point out, the precise place where a Moa or 

 Moas had been seen. 



Eaumoa = Moa's feather : also, a variety of New Zealand Flax {Plior- 

 miiim) : also, a blade of grass {Spinifex). 



Himoa = ? to fish with a hook and Ime having a bit of Moa's bone 

 (fossil) attached as a lure — as the Maoris formerly did at the East Cape. 



Karamoa, — this may mean the same as Taramoa ; the k being substi- 

 tuted for t, which is sometimes done. 



(N.B — Those preceding names of persons and of places have been 

 obtained from all parts of the North Island.) 



(4.) As a compound word for names of things, etc., e.g. : — 



Eaumoa,! ] 



Kauhangaamoa, v names of 3 varieties of New Zealand Flax [Phormiuyn) . 



Karuamoa, j 



Hinamoa — a grub in wood, eating and making it rotten, and yet having 

 a fair outside. 



Eauhamoa — a large bird, 



Taramoa, ) i , / 7-. 



_, , [Bramble (Rubus austrahs). 



Tataramoa, > ' 



Tautauamoa — a dispute about a piece of land or bed (??ioa) in a cultiva- 

 tion ; a quarrel between a few of the same tribe ; a private quarrel. 



t Hiuetemoa, a lady who lived eleven generations back (and an ancestress of Henare 

 Toomoana, M.H.E.), was the wife of the chief Hikawera, and mother of Te Whatuiapiti, 

 from whom the sub-tribe of Ngatitewhatuiapiti, residing at Patangata and Waipukurau in 

 Hawke's Bay, are descended. On my formerly enquiring of the old chiefs of that tribe, 

 why she obtained that name ? the reply was : To show her high rank ; she being the 

 daughter of a great chief and of a great lady; hence, Hine — which was joined to that of the 

 one great majestic Moa dwelling on the mountain Whakapunake, there being no other, 

 so — Hinetemoa I I 



X Eaumoa, being the name for a variety of New Zealand Flax (Phorviium), found on 

 the West Coast (unknown by sight to me), and also a name for the leaves of the sea-side 

 grass Spinifex hirsutus, a question here arises : (1) is the glaucous green Spinifex similar in 

 hue to the said variety of Phormium ? and, if so, (2) could the extinct bird Moa have had 

 plumage of a similar colour in the eye of the old Maoris ? (3) the hairy waving flaccid and 

 closely growing Spinifex might also have carried a resemblance to the coarse body-feathers 

 of the Moa. From strict etymological analogy, I should say, there must have been some- 

 thing in connection with the Moa which gave their names to those two plants ; such, too, 

 being in keeping with the genius of the ancient Maoris — as we may see (for instance) in 

 the plant Eauhuia = the plume of the Huia {Linum vionogynwn), just because it bears 

 its numerous white flowers at the tips of its branches, so reminding the old Maori of the 

 white-tipped feathers of the Huia {Heteralocha gouldi). 



