The natives attracted thebirds by imitating the peculiar whistle, from which it takesthe name of huia. It is generally allowed that a vast improvement has taken placein translations, whether prose or verse. -- Cacomantis pallidus and C. 118: The tamure is the snapper (Pagrus unicolor), a common fish onall the coasts.
The bark used to be taken for tying up postand rail fences, the rafters of huts, in the earlier periods ofthe colony, before nails could be so easily procured.
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