But among the forest trees of Puna the
crimson _apapane_ (_Himatione sanguinea_) still sounds its "sweet
monotonous note;" the bright vermillion _iiwipolena_ (_Vectiaria coccinea_)
hunts insects and trills its "sweet continual song;" the "four liquid
notes" of the little rufous-patched _elepaio_ (_Eopsaltria sandvicensis_),
beloved of the canoe builder, is commonly to be heard. Of the birds
described in the Laielohelohe series the cluck of the _alae_ (_Gallinula
sandricensis_) I have heard only in low marshes by the sea, and the
_ewaewaiki_ I am unable to identify. Andrews calls it the cry of a spirit.]
[Footnote 20: _Moaulanuiakea_ means literally "Great-broad-red-cock,"
and is the name of Moikeka's house in Tahiti, where he built the temple
Lanikeha near a mountain Kapaahu. His son Kila journeys thither to fetch
his older brother, and finds it "grand, majestic, lofty, thatched with
the feathers of birds, battened with bird bones, timbered with _kauila_
wood." (See Fornander's _Kila_.)]
CHAPTER IV
[Footnote 21: Compare Gill's story of the first god, Watea, who dreams
of a lovely woman and finds that she is Papa, of the underworld, who
visits him in dreams to win him as her lover.
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