IHE UKliGON NATURALIST. 



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observers have thought were idols. hands and arms, and some on the face; but as 



"These designs are invariably placed on the a general thing these marks are mere dots or 



men between the shoulders, just below the straight lines having no particular significance. 



back of the neck, on the breast, on the honi With the Haidas, liowever, every mark has its 



part of both thighs, and on the legs below the meaning, those on the hands and arms of the 



women Uidicate the family name, whether they 

 beloiig 10 the bear, beaver, wolf, or eagle 

 totems, 01 any of the family of fishes. As one 

 of them quamily remarked to me, 'If you weie 

 tattooed with the design of a swan, the Indians 

 would know your family name.'" 





THK IMPORTED AND ACCLIMATED 

 GERMAN SONG BIRDS IN OREGON. 



DOO-KISH. 



knee. On the women, they are mnrked on the 

 breast, on both shoulders, on both forearms, 

 from the elbow down over the back of the 

 hands to the knuckles, and on both legs below 

 the knee to the ankle, 



"Almost all of the Indian women of the 

 northwest coast have tattoo marks on their 



BY C. F. PFLUGER. 



PHE BLACK THRUSH {J'uri/us merula. Merle, 



die Sclnvarzamsel). 

 Of these most useful birds 35 pairs were intro- 

 tluceil in 1889 and 1892 into Oregon by the 

 society. 



It is a native bird of Europe, and is very 

 numerous in Germany and Great Britian. It 

 IS the onl) species ol thiush which is not mi- 

 gratory. 



The haunts and habits of the black 

 thrush are nearly the same as those of the .'ong 

 ihiush, its size being nine inches and a half 

 in length, of which the tail measures four inches. 

 The beak is one inch in length, and i)right 

 yellow; the iris dark brown; the feet black and 

 fourteen lines in height. The male is black all 

 ovei' the body; the female bhickish brown, 

 tinged on the breast with[rust-color,'nnd onthe 

 )elly with gray, and is somewhat la'ger than 

 her mate. Its food is the same as that of the 

 song-thrush, though, in winter, it is often 

 obliged to be content with the beiries of the 

 elder and white thorn, ;ind at the same 

 season of the year it cnn fiequently be seen 

 near warm springs, m search of insects and 

 worms. As the black -thrush is not a bird of 

 passage, it pairs very early in the year, so that 

 the young birds may oftei' be found in the nest 

 as early as the end of March. 



