Note 210 — SECTION VII. ZOOLOGICAL NOTES (ANIMALS WILD AND TAME)—NOTES ON FLORA—AGRICULTURE AND CATTLE-BREEDING—FISHERIES AND FISHING—INDUSTRY AND EMIGRATION.
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May not the idea have arisen from a confusion of “Tó,” a grass-tuft, with “Tóa,” or “Tófa,” a tod? The older name, Mel-rakki, is derived from burrowing in the sand.