SOME REMAINS ok ANTIQVTTY. 209 



It is the bird of the Great-Spirit. The Naudoweffie-In- 

 dians, our author iirforms us, " feemed to treat them as 

 if they were of a luperior rank to any other of the fea- 

 thered race."* There can be little doubt that the Wakon- 

 bird is the very fame bird which BrifTon has figured and 

 defcribed under the name of Le Tyran a queue fourchue^ 

 or 1 yrannus cauda bifurca.-j- It is the JVJufcicapa Tyran- 

 iius of Linnceus,!' ^"^ ^^^ Fork-taii-Ely-catcher of Pen- 

 nant. § 



Mr. Roger Williams, in his curious work, entitled 

 A Key into the Language of America, fpeaking of the 

 crow, fays, " 1 hefe birds, although they do the corn 

 fome hurt, yet fcarce will one native amongft an hundred 

 kill them ; becaufc they have a tradition, that the crow 

 brought them at firft an Indian grain of corn in one ear, 

 and an I ndian or French bean in another, from the great 

 God Cawtantowwit's field in the fouth-w eft, from whence 

 they hold came all their corn and beans. j|" 



" 'J hough with all the Indian nations, fays Adair, the 

 raven is deemed an impure bird, yet they have a kind of 

 facred regard to it, whether from the traditional know- 

 ledge of Noah's employing it while he was in the ark, or 

 from that bird having fed Elijah in the wildemefs las 

 fome fuppofe) cannot be determined ; however with our 

 fuppofed red Hebrews the name points out an indefatiga- 



Geography, (s'r. Part I. p. 192. Boftnn : 1793) fays, " Bartram confiderS 

 the whp-poorwill and the night-hawk as the fame bird (Caf)-imulci,us 

 Airericanus) buf they are well known to be different birdi." Mr. Moife, 

 howev-r, and not Mr. Baitram, is miilaken. 



* Three years Travels through the interior pans of North-America, &c. 

 • p. 244 and 245. Philadelphia: 1792. 



t Ornitholcgia, &c. Vol. II. p. 395, 396, 397 and 398. Parifiis : 

 1760. 



X Syftenia Naturae. ^ Arftic Zoology. Vol. II. p. 76. 



II See Colledlions of the Maffachufetis Hiftorical Society, for the year 

 1794. Vol. III. p. 219. 



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