Note 2 — The Foolish Bird1

One day, when the bird was going seeking and seeking food, there was a Mī tree2 in the jungle. The Mī flowers of that Mī tree had fallen on the ground. The bird, gathering the flowers, and having come and spread them out on the rock on which were the young ones, said to the young ones, “Children, until the time when I come [after] seeking food for you, look after these.”