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NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA. 



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The name is given from a 

 myth according to which 

 these birds are descended 

 from the coyote deity's 

 daughter, 

 woodpecker, ivory-billed : 

 o'pi do na. 



[o^pi, wood + do'na, to stab, 

 to peck.] 

 woodpecker, red -shafted, or 

 flicker (Colaptes mexi- 

 canus) : 

 ko'rra wats. 

 ko'rri mats, 

 worm, general term: 



wa'bi; wu'a bi. 

 wolf, gray {Canis lupus) : 

 i'sha, 



(Identified in a way with the 



ancestral deity of the Go- 

 shutes and Goships.) 

 wren, Bewick's (Thryothorus 

 hewicki) : 

 tim'pi tam pi a wa. 

 wren, Western house {Troglodytes 

 domesticus parkmanni) : 

 tu'im pin tci rritc (Goship). 

 tu'im pin tci rru (Goshute). 

 wrist : 



mau'wi to gan. 



[ma, hand + ivi to gan.] 



X. 



xiphoid or xiphisternum : 

 yin'gi po nump. 



[yin'gi, referring to the ster- 

 num + po + nump.] 



