8 THE FIJCKRR. 



Hivel. New York; Ohio. Origin in doubt. Possibly a 

 corruption of the old English word Hewel, for which see 

 High-hole and Hick-wall ; or a contraction of hiv^e-hole, from 

 the buzzing bee-like sounds emitted by the small young in the 

 ne.st. 



Hybrid Flicker* Name given the mixed birds of the West 

 by Baird. 



Jaune, Joune* Ivouisiana. French. Meaning yellow. 

 The second a corruption of the first. 



Le pic aux ailes dorees* Name given by Buff on. French, 

 Golden-winged Woodpecker. 



Little Woodchuck. Caloosahatche River Region, Florida. 

 The adjective is used to distinguish the smaller from the " Big 

 Woodchuck " (Ivory-billed Woodpecker). — ^D. D. Stone. 



Meadow Partridge* Wisconsin. Misnomer. From its 

 hurried, Partridge-like manner of flu.shing from the grass- 

 fields when startled. 



Missouri Red-moustached Woodpecker* Audubon's name 

 for the hybrid ( C. avresii). 



Mo-ning-qua-na. White Earth Reser\'ation. Chippewa 

 Indians. " Bird with dirty-colored wings." — W. W. Cooke. 



Northern Flicker. Prefix given by Outram Bangs to that 

 portion breeding from North Carolina northward. 



Ome-tuc* Maine. Probably of Indian and onomatopoetic 

 origin. 



On-thee-quan-nof-ow. Hudson Bay Region. British Amer- 

 ica. Natives. " From the golden color of its shafts and lower 

 sides of wings." — Alexander Wilson. 



O-zaw-wan-day Paw-Paw-say. Lower peninsula of Mich- 

 igan. Pottawatomie Indians. Yellow or Golden-colored Wood- 

 pecker. 



Partridge Woodpecker. Wisconsin; Massachusetts. See 

 Meadow Partridge. 



Paw-Paw-say, plural Paw-Paw-say-og. Lower peninsula 

 of Michigan. Pottawattomie Indians. ' ' Paw-big (flea ) hence 

 the word, jumping about quickly in any direction. Our 

 people did not go into varieties nor define birds and mammals 

 as Europeans do. For instance : should we want to describe 

 more particularly the Red-headed Woodpecker, we would say 

 Mis-qud (red )-o-dib (head ), Paw-Paw-.say (Woodpecker); or 



