September, 1919] 



The Canadian Field- Naturalist 



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abundant species. It here shows a tendency to 

 produce melanistic individuals. Three adult melano 

 specimens were collected and a female which was 

 transported to the museum gave birth to two black 

 individuals in a litter of thirty-eight. With the 

 exception of white lower jaws and throats the adult 

 melanoes are coal black and might pass for Pilot 

 Snakes (Elaphe o. obsoleta) or for Black Racer 

 Snakes (Coluber c. constrictor) were it not for the 

 divided anal plate of the former and the smooth 

 scales of the latter species neither of which features 

 are characteristic of T. sirtalis. The young in- 

 dividuals are black over all. The largest melano 

 and normal specimens measure thirty and thirty-nine 

 inches respectively. 

 6. Rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus. 



The only example of this species m the Museum 

 collection was taken near the end of Point Pelee 

 on Sept. 29, 1918, by Capt. G. Wilkinson of the 

 life saving station. In spite of the fact that for 

 the past fourteen years the "Point," owing to its 

 Carolinian fauna and to its being on one of the 

 chief bird migration routes, has been the favorite 

 observation and collecting ground of several of the 

 Dominion's keenest naturalists, this is the only 

 Rattler recorded in recent years. 



The capture of a young individual might indicate 

 that there were other members of the species there 



present, but as this specimen is an adult measuring 

 fifty-six inches in length and six and one-fourth 

 inches in girth, the probabilities are that the Rattlers 

 at Point Pelee, like those of many other localities 

 in southern Ontario, have been exterminated. 



7. Mush turtle, Kinosternon odoratum. 

 Two individuals of this species were discovered 



by members of our party who stepped on them 

 while wading in the marsh. The carapace of the 

 larger specimen measures four and one-half inches 

 in straight length. 



8. Snapping turtle, Chelydra serpentina. 

 Several examples of this species were observed 



but owing to the small size of our containers no 

 specimens were preserved. 



9. Spotted turtle, Clcmmys guttata. 



The carapace of the largest of the six specimens 

 collected measures four and three-fourths inches in 

 straight length. 



10. BlanDINg's turtle, Emys hlandingii. 

 Two small individuals of this species were col- 

 lected. 



11. Painted turtle, Chrysem^s m. marginata. 

 This species and C. guttata are about equally re- 

 presented in the marshes. 



As the foregoing is probably not a complete list 

 of the Reptilia of Point Pelee, additional records 

 would be of interest. 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 



Canada — How an Algonquin Country Re- 

 ceived AN Iroquois Name. — In the edition 

 of Champlain's Voyages, 1604-1618, reproduced by 

 the American Historical Society, the editor in a 

 foot-note writes of Hochelaga: "This place was 

 probably inhabited by Iroquois." A similar as- 

 sumption is made by a writer in the last Ontario 

 Archaeological Report. In neither case is there 

 evidence of any kind cited to support this conten- 

 tion and the idea seems to be merely deduced from 

 the fact that when Cartier visited Hochelaga in 

 1535, he found there a flourishing settlement, while 

 when Prevert, one of Champlain's lieutenants, 

 reached the same locality in 1603, no trace of village 

 or settlement remained. 



Recently, however, I came across some evidence 

 which seems to give this contention a more solid 

 footing. 



I have in my possession a copy of Zeisberger's 

 Indian Dictionary. It is a presentation copy given 

 to the date Mr. Lindsay Russell, by Prof. E. N. 

 Horsford, of Harvard, at whose expense and under 

 whose supervision the work was printed in Boston 

 in 1887. The information contained in this book 



is taken from the manuscript of David Zeisberger, 

 a Moravian missionary who worked amongst the 

 Indians for sixty-eight years from 1740 to 1808. 

 The manuscript is now in Harvard College. 



This work is printed in four parallel columns, 

 English, German, Onondaga and Delaware, the lat- 

 ter two representing the Iroquois and Algonquin 

 linguistic stocks respectively. 



On page 103 I find English and Onondaga as 

 follows, viz: 



English Onondaga 



To inhabit Tienageri 



Inhabitants in Canada Tiochtiage hotinageri 



and on page 185 



English Onondaga 



At the fork of two streams Tiochuhogu 



Now as Hochelaga was situated at the con- 

 fluence of the St. Lawrence and Ottawa rivers, 

 and as "In Canada" doubtless meant to the 

 Iroquois of that day "In the country north of the 

 St. Lawrence," to one knowing the different forms 

 which an Indian word may take, owing to the 

 language never having been a written one, it 

 seems a fair inference that Hochelaga and Tioch- 



