INDIAN TRIBES OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY. 
a-bas’, a beaver. 
i/-ha-ha, a muskrat. 
si’-a, a weasel. 
ba-hii’, a large fox. Vulpes macrourus. 
no’-a-ha, kit fox. Vulpes velox. 
bali-un-’, large squirrel, ground hog. Arctomys flavi- 
venter. 
ho-hoi’-yun-i, spotted-backed squirrel. Spermophilus 
tridecem lineatus. 
na-w’, striped squirrel. Zamias quadrivitiatus. 
¢éa-thun’-i, prairie dog. Cynomys ludovicianus. 
éa-thun’-i-si-a, ground weasel. C. Gunnison. 
ee t spotted-backed polecat. 
o-hu, porcupine. 
yeh, otter. 
ba-ha-ku’, “large rat.”’ Neotoma cinerea. 
ka-ka’-sa-ni, “scar bird,” so called from the spots on 
the head, which look like scars. 
montana. 
Charadrius 
sus-ku’-it-o, a ground sparrow, a bird that frequents 
the edge of a stream or bank. 
tuth’-e-i-the’-ka-na, “‘a bird that the heron carries on 
its back ;” from tuth’-e, a heron, and i-the’-ka-na, 
to carry on the back. 
a-wuth’-na-ku’-we-e, white-nosed duck. Mergus Ame- 
ricanus. 
ba-bi-thin’-a-he, “little red-winged bird.” Leucosticte 
tephrocotis. 
bas-nak-than’, a bush growing near Fort Bridger, and 
used by the Arapohos as kinnic-kinnic. 
ni-ha-na/-i-na, “yellow flower.” Ranunculus glaber- 
rimus. 
éa-nat/-an-a-i-na, “blue flower,” blue bell. Mertensia 
Virginica. 
éa-e’-i-hi, “wild potatoes.” Dicentra. 
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sath, common pine. 
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i-tuh-w’-ii, “sharp leaves ;” a small species of Phlox. 
i-¢un’i, pomme blanche. Psoralea esculenta. 
ka-i-ya’-i-no, “yellow flowers, with gum on them.” 
Grindelia squarrosa. 
sath-1’-win, “little pine berries,” a species of trailing 
Juniperus. 
bis-¢i/-hin, a species of Eriogonum, growing on the 
gravelly hills; word derived from bi, a cow, and 
Gi-hin, smoke, buffalo smoke, a weed used for 
smoking meat. 
ni-éa/-Gut-e, a chenopodiaceous shrub, salty weed or 
shrub. 
ni-¢a/-in-a, a plant growing on rocks in the mountains. 
thi-kun-bi’-tun, a kind of moss, “dead man’s porcupine 
work.” 
bi-te-ba’-yak, a kind of ground lichen. 
Gi-wan-i’-na-ka/-si, “half sage.” Artemisia Canadense. 
si-si’-yi-wish, “‘snake-bush.” Sarcobatus vermicularis. 
Word derived from si-si’-ye, a snake, and bish, a 
bush. 
woh-u-ha’-bi-thi-it, “bush that horses eat.” 
CaNescens. 
Obione 
ba-ée-wi'-she, red willow. Cornus sericea. 
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” Arctostaphylos uva-urst. 
it-a-he’-win-a, ‘hot berries.’ 
The leaves of this shrub form the real kinnic-kinnic 
of the Western Indians, which they mix with their 
tobacco in preference to the leaves or bark of any 
other plant. The bark of Cornus sericea is used as 
a substitute only in the absence of the A. uva-ursv. 
Pinus ponderosa. 
tha-ki’-sath, spruce pine. Abies Douglassi. 
a-hat’, sweet cottonwood. Populus. 
a-ha/-tin-wi'-tin, bitter cottonwood. Populus. 
bi-tin’-a, quaking asp. Populus. 
ha-hw’-is, box elder, ‘the hollow wood.” 
aceroides. 
Negundo 
