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Ruffed Grouse. 



Bonasa umbel lus togata (Linn.). Mid'-dji es\ 



" Lazy-Bird," says one. In the old mythology, Miitdjies 

 was a wonderful man. He undertook canoe building, but 

 made a failure of it, and has not ventured to try the water 

 since. 



Passenger Pigeon. 



Ectopistes niigratorius (Linn.). Pul'-es. 

 Ktcikwipules is any animal found wild in the woods, i. e. 

 a " wood pigeon." 



Biswe pules is an animal with no owner, a "wild pigeon." 



Saw-whet Owl. 



Nyctala acadica (Gmel.). Kup-ka' mis. 



Kitp, pitched in a high key, is the sound uttered by the 

 owl. It is the '' whetting " sound that sometimes, as we 

 read, leads travelers, lost at night in the forest, to hunt for 

 the saw-mill and the workmen, who in filing their saws 

 make the sounds that come with such suggestiveness out 

 of the gloom of the lonely woods. 



No Indian hunter, if he is sane, thinks of injuring or 

 mocking Kupkamls. Nor should any one imitate that di- 

 minutive sorcerer, for something about your camp will get 

 a good scorching, and if any one kills him he will as certainly 

 get hurt himself. A pair of moccasins, owned by the 

 writer and blistered before the camp fire, was witness to 

 the truth of this. Had not one of those common mishaps, 

 in which the writer endeavored with success to put the 

 blade of an axe through his foot, occurred after instead of 

 before his first tragic encounter with Kupkamls (whose 

 pelt was afterwards removed without bewitchment), the 

 evidence would have been conclusive to the Indian. But 

 with all his witchcraft he is a harmless wo/iantosis, little 

 devil, who would rather prescribe for his small patients, 

 the unwary mouse, and sz'psis, small bird, the medicine of 

 magic claws and sharper beak. 



