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PlED-BILLED GREBE. 

 Podilymlms podiceps (Linn.). A'zops. 

 Akin to zobeyii, smooth or slippery. Gunners know how 

 difficult it is to shoot a " Hell-diver." " Sartin, very hard 

 to hit," says the Indian. 



Loon._ 

 Urinator im"ber (Gunn.). Ug wim>, rarely Ug-wim'. 

 Related to ugzvimu, floating on the water, " like a dead 

 fish" ; also to ugwid'n, canoe. 



Leach's Petrel. 

 Oceanodroma lencorlioa (Vieill.). Men'-he bi-meh'-sit. 

 Leach's Petrel, the little "Peter" who skims the surface 

 of ocean with legs hanging downwards is so called, from 

 menhebimet, a skimmer, such as squaws use to remove the 

 scum from the surface of the pot of boiling water. Gf. ne-bi, 

 water (old Abenaki). 



Gull 

 (Laridae) in general. Ki-ahkw' or Ki-aJikzv' . 

 Perhaps related to kialikzvii, straight course. 



American Herring Gull. 

 Lams argentatus Smithsonian us Coues. (Adult.) 

 (i) Wa-be-ki'-ahkw, White (wdbcyu) -Gull. Also 

 sometimes 



(2) Wd'-be-it'-sips, White-" Duck." 



Terns 



(Sterna, etc.). Ki-ah'-z\s, Little-Gull. 



Duck 

 in general, Sips. A loose term as previously mentioned. 

 Context is the only guide to meaning, especially of the 

 diminutives. 



Red-breasted Merganser. 



Merganser serrator (Linn.). 



(1) Kzvsiq'-kuh. A name applied also to an unde- 

 termined species of water insect. Another name is 



(2) Ya '-ft-biig-wi-miis '- sit ! , likewise the name of a 

 certain water insect that circles about on the "surface of 

 the water." (Cf. ugwimu.) 



