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phaeton

5 Kiribati words

• ngutu
  • Sabatier Phaeton Lepturus dorotheae.
• tarangotu
  • Sabatier a bird (phaeton) with yellow beak and tail.
• koroangutungutu
  • Sabatier phaeton <bird> with yellow beak and two long tail feathers of same colour.
• kabaki
  • Sabatier ana man Kabaki, Nei Karia, and Nei Karokoa: names for white phaeton which indicates by its high or low flight the distance of land.
• take
  • Sabatier a bird (Phaeton) with two red feathers in tail (Phaeton rubriacuda mela norhynchos), rarely seen in Gilbert Islands, sign, omen of death for person of clan of which it is totem.