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and this overtone very much softer and fainter than the 
deeper note, had a sound more allied to the cry of the duck. 
Yerv often during flight the drake will sound his deep notes 
of (5), whilst the duck cries the plaintive notes of (3) ; and the 
effect is then as though the duck were lamenting a lost brood or 
desolated home, whilst the drake was doing his utmost to com¬ 
fort her. If, as is said, the native name putangitangi was given 
on account of the cry, then the notes of (3) were certainly the 
ones whose plaintiveness touched the poetical nature of the 
Maori. 
