118 BIRD LIFE ON ISLAND AND SHORE 
were but three pairs of Fantails, one pair of Grey 
Warblers, one pair of Yellow-breasted Tit, one or 
perhaps two pairs of Weka. Once a small party 
of Brown Creepers were noticed—stragglers from 
the mainland, we believed, as they were not 
again seen. A single Kaka, perhaps hurt and 
afraid on account of the Sea Hawk to venture 
across the intervening sea, lived alone on the 
tall ironwoods. Once high in the sky I saw a 
Harrier chased by a Sea Hawk. A few Kittywake 
and a few Black-backed Gull exist on sufferance. 
When noticed, they are swooped upon by the 
fierce Sea Hawk, and hunted off the premises. 
There was no shaggery on the island, but during 
calm weather a few Pied Shag roosted in the 
limited shelter of our landing-place. The only 
glimpse of any other kind of Shag was afforded 
by solitary representatives of a breed unknown 
to us. One of these strangers, passing up the gut 
of water dividing Kotiwhenu from another islet, 
was greeted, we thought, by an unamiable chorus 
from the Pied birds. They resented the presence 
of a stranger even on the confines of their territory. 
The Blue Penguin or Rockhopper bred with us. 
Their eggs, placed on unattainable cave ledges, 
we could see though not touch. We could mark, 
too, from the clifis above, through the clear sea 
water, the subaqueous approach of the old birds. 
The Yellow-eye breed was not seen, but once 
