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CLASSES OF ANIMALS AND PLANTS. 



Given in the Klamath Lake Dialect by Dave Hill. 



Quadrupeds: holiankankatk lilhanks; ndnuktua hohdnkankatk; wunfpa 

 tso'ks gi'tk kailatat tchia ndnuktua lilhanks wikts ndkanti. 



Birds: Msaltk n^nuktua. 3 



Forest birds of small size: tchfkass. 



Forest birds of smallest size: tchlliliks, tchflilika. 



Ducks and geese: ma'makli. 6 



Night birds: psfn huntchna. 



Water birds: nanuktua huliAnkankatk ^-ushtat, dmbutat tchla. 



Swimming animals: ndnuktua ududamkanksh sdyuaks; ndnuktua ud6- 9 

 damkankatk. 



Fish: kia'm. 



Jumping amphibians, toads and frogs: skdskatkankatk. 12 



Snakes: wishink; wdmgnigsh. 



Lizards; lit. '■'■ walking straight out": uli-uldtchkankatk. 



Reptiles and worms: skiskankankatk. 16 



Flying insects: mank. 



Creeping insects, snails, some mollusks etc.: mu'lk, mu'lkaga. 



Grass, seed-grass: kshiin. 18 



Berries: iwam. 



Edible roots, bulbs and seeds: mAklaksam pdsh; lutfsh. 



Trees: anku; ko'sh. 21 



NOTES. 



These generic terms are quite characteristic, but by no means systematic. These 

 Indians classify animals otherwise than we do, for they regard the mode of loco- 

 motion as a criterion for their subdivisions of the animal kingdom, thus sometimes 

 placing in the same class animals which widely differ in their bodily structure. The 

 Indian mind likes to specify and is averse to generalizations; there are a few Indian 

 languages only that contain comprehensive generic terms for " animal," " carnivore," 

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