[124] This bird, often called a "hornbill" by foreigners in the Philippines, is probably the halcyon kingfisher (Ceyx euerythra) of the islands. The ground hornbill is confined to Africa; and the tree hornbill of the Philippines does not make its nest at the foot of trees, as in this story.
[125] A mountain-plant whose stem has a thin, glossy, black sheath, that is stripped off and used in twisting the decorative leglet called tikus.
[126] In a strict sense, the term malaki is never applied to a man, unless he is young, unmarried, and perfectly chaste. But this technical use is not always preserved.
[127] Small bells cast from a hand-made wax mould, and extensively used for decorating baskets, bags, belts, etc.
[128] See footnote 1, p. 38.
[129] See footnote 2, p. 28.
[130] The good soul that goes to the city of the dead, and continues to live much as on earth. The gimokud tebang, or bad soul, becomes a Buso after death.
[131] The "lion" is borrowed from some foreign source, since in the Philippines there are no large carnivorous mammals.
[132] The so-called "chameleon" of the Malay Peninsula and the Malay Islands is Calotes, one of the Agamidæ (cf. H. Gadow, Amphibia and Reptiles, pp. 517-518).
[133] A semi-aquatic lizard of the Philippines that lays edible eggs, and otherwise answers to the description of the Varanus, or Monitor.