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one to another, “Hark! wliat bird is that? Surely it is a female 
weka that is crying in the wood above ns. 77 He then climbed 
to a point still higher above the pa, where he commenced to 
cry tee-wake, tee-wake, tee-wake. The women said again, 
“Hark! Surely that is the cry of a male weka. 77 .His com¬ 
panions, on hearing his signals, interpreted them to mean that 
although there were many women in the pa they were not 
altogether unprotected. 77 I have heard no calls to corres¬ 
pond to the second of these signals, and the first is the vocaliza¬ 
tion of the call of the male bird at Kapiti. 
There is a proverb E hia motunga o te weka i te mahanga 
(GK, p. 18), “How often does the weka break loose from the 
snare? 77 —meaning “Ah, you’ll be caught at last, 77 and another 
(Tr. Yol. 12, 1880, p. 120), Ka hoki ranei te weka i motu ki te 
mahanga? “Will the escaped weka indeed return to the snare? 77 
—meaning once bit twice shy. 
