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at the Bird Islands (Mag-dalens) says there is one which the sailors 

 call " Guillaume ou Autrement Tangeux," but the narrie does not ap- 

 pear later so far as I can find. 



Tarin. — Name of a bird mentioned by Cartier in 1535. It is the French name 

 for a small relative of the Thistle-bird, and appears to have Been 

 used by Cartier simply as a duplicate name of the latter. It is mis- 

 printed Turnis in the printed narrative. 



Taygnay. — A word used by Cartier, in 1534, in connection with a harbor 

 bottom. Baxter considers this as from the same root as the English 

 Tangle, and translates it tangle -weed. It must be remembered, how- 

 ever, that the word tangue means sea-sand, which would be at least 

 equally appropriate to the context. 



Feurtre. — See Tourte. 



Thornebacke. — English name for the Big Skate of Europe, extended, in Î578, 

 by Parkhurst, to a flsh of Newfoundland, which is without doubt the 

 Barn Door Skate. It would then be the same as the Bouclée of Denys. 



Tiercelet. — A French name for more than one small Hawk, but applied in 

 Acadia to the Pigeon-Hawk by Denys, whose brief description seems 

 to make its identity plain. Champlain (1632) also usues it. 



Titiais. — Name of a bird mentioned by Le Clercq, apparently the same as 

 Titit, the French name for the Hedge Sparrow. The word was applied 

 no doubt by Le Clercq to sparrows generallj-. 



Tortue. — French name for Tortoise, extended to the American forms. Denys 

 applies the name, as Tortue, to a form which his description shows to 

 be the common Painted Tortoise. Cartier mentions tortues on the St. 

 Lawrence, below Quebec, in 1535. Baxter considers these to be the 

 Snapping Turtle, but I do not find that this species frequents the salt 

 water. 



Tournevires. — Old French name for Tourne-pierre or Turnstone, a shore-bird, 

 transferred to the similar Canadian species. Used by Denys in 1672. 



Tourte, or Tourtre. — French name for the Turtle-dove of Europe, which does 

 not occur in America, transferred to the Passenger Pigeon, and thus 

 used still by the Acadians and Canadians. Used by Cartier, in 1534, who 

 speaks of teurtres & ramyers. The ramyers can only be the Mourning 

 Dove, the only other bird of this character which occurred in this 

 region. Lescarbot, however, used the name Palombe, name of the Pas- 

 senger Pigeon of France for this species, as did Champlain. Lescarbot 

 also thought he found a rainier in the Acadian woods, (the same Mourn- 

 ing Dove) and also a third species, Tourtercfile (another name for the 

 Turtle-Dove of France), but this must have been simply a form of one 

 of the others. Denys applies the name toutre constantly to the Pas- 

 senger Pigeon. This would, of course, be the Turtle Doves of the early 

 English accounts, including the translation of Alphonse of 1543. 



Tourterelle. — See Tourte. 



