52 Account of the 



The Wunaumeeh- Indians call the Elk, Linimuus ? 

 and Moose, or Moos: the Monsees, Acb-tficb? the 

 Machians, Mooth? the Chippewas, Mi-che-ivey : the 

 Messisaugers, Moos: the Ottawas, Me-scbc-we : the 

 Miami s, Mon-so-a? the Shawnees, IVa-pi-ti : the 

 Nanticokes, Moos: the Mohawks, Soonoo-oo-wab-ne: 

 the Oneidas, Cbo-waub-Io-wau-na: the Onondagos, 

 Tscbuckdragok : the Tuscaroras, Cbo-waub-ro-wauh t 

 the Cayugas, Skau-bets-bo-wau: and the Wyandots, 

 Tsun-dar-ren-tah. 



GREY MOOSE. 



Mr. Dudley, in his account of the American Moose- 

 Deer, remarks, that there are two sorts of Moose, 

 " the common light Grey Moose, by the Indians call- 

 ed Wampoose, , ' and " the large or Black Moose," 

 which is the Cervus Alces. The former, he observes, 

 " are more like the ordinary deer, spring like them, 

 and herd sometimes to thirty in a company*." I am 

 somewhat at a loss to determine what animal this 

 Grey Moose is. Mr. Pennant takes it for the stag, 

 or Cervus Elaphust- I think it more probable, how- 

 ever, that it is the American Elk, or Cervus Wapiti. 

 Mr. Catesby, indeed, expressly informs us, that the 



* The Philosophical Transactions, abridged. Vol. vi. Part iii. 

 p. 1 6. 



+ Arctic Zoology. Vol. i« P* 19. 



