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PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 



[April, 



beetle, lady-bird {Coccinella, etc.) : 

 ?a'ka na bun. 

 [a'ka, branch, etc, + na + 

 bun, thing resting or living 

 upon, etc.] 

 beetle, tumble-bug : 

 wo'tsa wan dl tci. 



[wo'tsa wan, to roll + bl tci.] 

 The name of these beetles is 

 given in reference to their 

 well-known habit of form- 

 ing balls of manure which 

 they roll often long dis- 

 tances before depositing 

 their eggs in them, 

 beetle, water-scavenger (Hydro- 

 philus) : 

 tu'ban di sip. 



[tu from tu^o bit, black -1- pa, 

 water + n, adjective end- 

 ing + (prob.) di'si, signify- 

 ing, from its composition, 

 to stick or press into, press 

 through, pass through, etc, 

 -\- p, nominal ending.] 

 The latter part of this name, 

 ban di sip, is a somewhat 

 general term applied to 

 various aquatic forms, both 

 animal and plant, 

 bile: 



ni'wam bui. 

 [ni wa, hver + m, adjective 

 ending -t- bu i.] 

 bile-duct : 

 ^si'gwa na di wok, 



{si'gwa + na'di wok, indicat- 

 ing a connecting tube or 

 cord, etc] 

 bird (general term) : 

 oi'tcu;hoi'tcu. _^^ 



bison {B. americanus) : 



(a) cow : tsa'kwitc u ; sa'kwitc-u . 

 ti'bi tci gwitc, 



[tVbi tci, true -f kwttch, 

 from kwitcen, a word now 

 commonly applied to the 

 domestic cow {Bos).] 

 (6) bull: po'ijin. 

 bittern, American {Botaurus len- 

 tiginosus) : 

 mo'piin gwi. 



This name is imitative of the 

 Spring song or "booming" 

 of this bird, which is well 

 represented by the repeti- 

 tion of these syllables six or 

 seven times, with the ac- 

 cent strongest upon the 

 second syllable and the 

 last one sounded least dis- 

 tinctly, 

 black-bird (general term) : 



pa'giin siik. 

 black-bird, red-winged (Agelaus 

 phoeniceus) : 

 puil'go pa gun suk. 



[pun'go, horse -j- pa'gUn siik.] 

 The name of "horse-black- 

 bird" is given to this 

 species, because observed 

 frequently to follow after 

 horses in fields in order to 

 work over the droppings, 

 black-bird, yellow-headed {Xan- 

 thocephalus icterocephalus) : 

 sai'pa gun siik. 



[saip, bulrush + pa'giin suk, 

 blackbird.] 

 bladder, urinary: 

 sip. 



[sip in strictness means the 



