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mi-wa-wi’-kis, butcher bird. Collyrio excurbitoides. 
e-a-wo-Ci-mo-pa, a cuckoo. Coccygus Americanus. 
mah-ta/-he-in, white-winged blackbird. Dolichonyx 
oryZzivorus. 
e-nis’-ko-na’-wi-wo-to’-nats, martin. Progne purpurea. 
shili-o-to’-ne, banded-tailed hawk. 
no-man’-to-ki-si-wa’-nds, a kind of hawk. 
mo-ta’-wo-is-tdm, a kind of hawk. 
po-pa’-ki-ta-no’-i-sun, a sandpiper. 
he-i’-mi-e. (?) 
shi’-ish, a heron. 
Tringoides. 
Ardea herodias. 
wi-i-e’, bittern. Botauwrus lentiginosus. 
mo-o-ko’, whooping crane. Grus Americanus. 
wo'-a, aswan. Cygnus buccinator. 
he’-na, a brant goose. 
wo-ko-mi’-na, a white goose. 
mai-a-tauh, a goosander. 
shi-wa-ne-shish’, red-breasted teal. Querquedula cya- 
nopteris. 
o-wish’, long-billed curlew. Numenius longtrostris. 
pa’-wi-wi-kis, wax wing. <Ampelis garrulus. 
ON THE ETHNOGRAPHY AND PHILOLOGY OF THE 
shish-to-to’-wa’-hi-yis, ruffed grouse. Bonasa um- 
bellus. 
shi-shi-noli-uts, a rattlesnake. Crotalus confluentus. 
sas-ko’-wi-tan, a striped water-snake. Mutainia Hay- 
dent. 
ni-e’, large prairie snake. Pituophis Sayt. 
o-ho’-i-tsi-mim, a green snake. ascanion flaviven- 
tris. 
ka-ko'-i-mim, a bull snake. Heterodon nasicus. 
ma/-i-min. (?) 
moli’-ta-wi-min, water moccasin. NVerodia sipedon. 
ais’-tol’-an, a round turtle that sits on the prairie, 
looks like a “buffalo chip,” and if undisturbed, 
watches the sun, and turns with it. 
ha-ta’-o-wis, a swift, or lizard, found in the sand-hills. 
Plestiodon. 
ho’-o-ma, a musquito. 
hali’-nom, a horse-fly. 
minst’k-so-ni, small insects, ants, lice, &e. 
mi’-shi-min, caterpillars. 
NAMES OF PLANTS. 
ho-i-nai’-i-mo-i, a plant found near the summits of the 
high mountains, growing on the rocks in thick 
masses, like moss. 
wili-¢i-wa-no, Sarcobatus vermicularis, called by the 
traders ‘ grease-wood.’’ 
It is a chenopodiaceous 
plant, grows in thick clumps, three to six feet 
high, and is often used for fuel by the Indians 
and yoyageurs in their travels over the treeless 
prairies. It is very abundant throughout the 
saline clays of the cretaceous and tertiary forma- 
tions of the Upper Missouri, but more especially 
abundant in the valleys of the Yellowstone and 
Missouri near their sources. 
toh-to-i-wili’-i-wa’-no, 2 shrub somewhat similar to the 
last. 
mali/-i-wa/-no, Artemisia trifida, a very abundant 
shrub along the bottoms of streams, as well as the 
uplands on the Upper Missouri. It grows some- 
times to the height of ten feet, with stems six 
inches in diameter, and is also useful for fuel. 
he’-i-wa-nost’, Artemisia frigida, wild sage. 
kok-si-wa’-no, a species of Artemisia like <A. trifida, 
growing on the Big-horn Mountains. 
wa-ni’-tsi-pa-i-me’-1-its, a low sage ; herbaceous. 
mah-i-mi'-ka-ist, Linosyris graveolens, a shrub associa- 
ted with the ercase-wood and sage, and used as fuel. 
o-i-nai’-i-ko-wost, Phlox Hoodi, a low species; looks 
like gray, rigid moss. 
ha-ma-mih’-a-ist, Gutierrizia euthamic. 
woh-pi-wili’-i-wa-no, Hurotia lanata. 
¢i-hos-¢i-a-wo'-e-ist, a Solidago, named from its large 
yellow flowers. 
Abies. 
wa’-no-wan, Frasera, a tall plant growing in the moun- 
mi-mi’-a-ton, spruce pine. 
tains. 
ha-ma-sis’-ti-to, Pinus. 
he-yo-wo’-ist, all kinds of moss. 
mah-i-no-a-ni’-o-nuts, Chimaphila umbellata. 
shi-ni-wa’-tsi-wa-mo’-e, Potentilla Norvegica. 
ma-ost’, a tall, fine species of Lriogonum. 
he-ho-wa-nis’-téts, a yellow moss like lichen, used for 
dyeing porcupine quills. 
