Milicete Indian iNatural History: 



A List of Bird Names, together with a Supplementary 

 List of Names of Other Animals, 



By TAPPAN ADNEY. 



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Two hundred and fifty years ago, when John Smith of 

 Jamestown visited New England, the whole country from 

 the Richelieu eastward to the river St. John in Acadia was 

 occupied by the one great tribe of the Abenaki, composed 

 of several sub-tribes speaking different dialects of one 

 language. There were the Wawenocks, Norridgwoks, 

 Assaguntacooks, Sokokies or Pequakets, and Pennacooks, 

 all of whom have ceased to exist separately. Disheartened, 

 and depleted in numbers by warfare with the whites, the 

 remnants have withdrawn at different times into Canada. 

 To-day there remain only the Penobscots and Passama- 

 quoddies in Eastern Maine, and last, the so-called Milicetes* 

 who occupy the valley of the St. John River in New 

 Brunswick, but also mingle with the Penobscots. 



*A corruption of Malizet {Mal-i-ztt-e-'watc, a Milicete), the name applied to 

 them by the Micmacs. They call themselves Olastugiuk, or People of the 

 Olasluk, or Wallastook, as the river is named on old maps. They are there- 

 fore often known by the term St. John River Indians. 



