236 The American Angler 
muskelunjeh, maskinonge, names of the pike of 
the northern lakes; corrupted from Nipissing 
“mashkinonge,” “strong pickerel” or “ robust 
pickerel.” 
Namaycush, a name of the Mackinaw trout of 
the northern lakes, from Cree “ namaykoos.” 
Neshaw, a local name in Massachusetts for a 
species of eel; from Narragansett “ neshau,” 
plural “ neshanog,” “there are two,” probably 
referring to the fins, of which there seem to be 
but two (the pectoral), the ventral being absent, 
and the dorsal, anal and caudal being united. 
Oulachan, a name in Oregon for the candle- 
fish, from the Chinook name “ oolakan.” [Gen- 
erally pronounced “ hoolakins” by the English 
at Victoria.—ED.] 
Panhagen, panhangen, panhagan, names of 
the mossbunker corrupted from the Abnaki 
name “ Pookangane,” “ split fin.” 
Paugie, pogy, poggy. These names have 
been thought by some to be derived from the 
“characteristic” “ p”’ and the verbal and plural 
suffixes “au -|— og” of the Indian name of the 
fish, “‘mishcuppau.” The word porgee, how- 
ever, was in use in Massachusetts at an early 
period, and was probably introduced by the 
colonists from England, where it is the popular 
name of a related fish. The name is probably 
from Latin “pargus,” whence also Spanish 
“pargo,’ and French “ pagre.’ Whether the 
above words are Indian or only corruptions of 
porgee is, therefore, doubtful. [This fish is 
also called “scup ” or “scuppang,” which is an 
abbreviation of “mishcuppang,” a name ap- 
plied to it by the Narragansett Indians.—Ep.] 
Pogy, porgie, poggie, names of the moss- 
bunker, probably transferred from the big por- 
gee. 
Quinat, an Oregon name for a species of sal- 
mon; from “t’kwinnat,” the Selish name of the 
fish. [This fish is known to the Russians as the 
“choweecha” or “tchawytcha,” a name, says 
Dr. Jordan, more easy to pronounce than to 
spell. Inthe Chinook jargon it is the “ Tyee.” 
—ED.] 
Squeteague, a name of the weakfish, variously 
corrupted to squettee, squitie, squit, scuteeg, 
chequet, chickwit, and chickwick. The name 
probably stands for “m’skwiteague,” “stained 
with red,” referring to the bright salmon-col- 
ored tint of the fish’s chin. [To these corrup- 
tions may be added the word “succoteague,” 
also of Indian origin.—Ep.] 
Tautog, a name for the blackfish, from the 
plural form “tautanog,” of the Narragansett 
name “tautau.” [It may be of interest to note 
that these fish are called, on the eastern shore 
of Virginia, “ Moll” and “ Will George.”—ED.] 
Tullibee, tulibee, a name of the Coregonus 
artedi, a congener of the whitefish (C. albus) 
of the rivers and lakes of the northwest ; cor- 
rupted from Cree “attonibis” (Objibway, 
“ odonabee”’), ‘‘mouth water,’ a name that 
may possibly allude to the character of the flesh 
of the fish, which is lean and watery, and greatly 
inferior as an article of food to that of the 
whitefish. [The writer errs in stating that 
“tullibee” is the name of Coregonus artedi. It is 
a different species and is considered by many 
naturalists as a hybrid between the whitefish 
C albus, and a lake herring. In this connec- 
tion we refer those interested in the popular 
nomenclature of fish to that excellent book, 
“American Fishes,” by Dr. G. Brown Goode, 
curator of the National Museum at Washing- 
ton.—ED.] 
Tittameg, a Canadian name of the whitefish, 
from Cree “ atikkameg,” “ cariboufish.” 
Wininish, the name of a fish of the northern 
lakes, from Objibway “ winin,” “fat,” and the 
derogatory suffix “ ish.” 
Angling «Donts.” 
Semi-occasionally, and only so, do we find 
good things and practical about angling in the 
daily press, and when we do we always re- 
cord them. Here is a pyramid of good ones 
taken from Zhe New YVork World, which 
journal has evidently netted an angler. We 
have boiled down the matter slightly to make 
a column of it, but not a line of it misses the 
mark: 
DON’T yank. 
DON’T get snagged. 
DON’T troll too fast. 
DON’T forget the bait. 
DON’T try fancy casts. 
DON’T step on your rod. 
DON’T try to cast too far. 
DON’T sit on your rod tips. 
DON’T buy ‘‘cheap”’ tackle. 
DON’T let your reel-overrun. 
DON’T strike on a slack line. 
DON’T lie; it’s been overdone. 
DON’T forget the proper tides. 
DON’T fish with untried tackle. 
DON’T put your fish in the sun. 
DON’T grab a catfish by the fins. 
DON’T keep your bait in the sun. 
