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Wyandot (same people) Daigh- ton-tali, E. 
Illinois . . . Pireouah, F. 
Knisteneaux . Mes-sey-thew, E. 
Miamis . . . Pilauoh . 
Nenticoke . . Pahquun, E. 
Nottoway * . . Kunum, E. 
°of a Sil!ux) (1 * tran ? h } ^.ze.kah, E, 
Onondagos (Iroquois) ^Netachrochwa gatsehi- 
C cock . Sukah tingah, E. . 
Osage | hen . Inchuga Sukah, E. 
0t (Sioux) Waht . 0ktat . al1 } Wa-ek-kung.ja, E. 
Shawanese . . Pelewa, G. 
Ucheef . . . Witch-pshah, E. 
U "lEd)° g (L0Dg }Nal«am,E. . . 
Attwater in Arehseol. 
Amer. 
MS. Voc. 
Mackenzie. 
MS. Voc. 
MS. Voc. 
MS. Voc. 
Say. 
Zeisberger’sDictionary, 
MS. 
MS. Voc. 
MS. Voc. 
Say. 
Heckewelder. 
MS. Voc. 
MS. Voc. 
GENUS XIX. — TETRAO . 
42 . TETRAO OBSCURUS , SAY. DUSKY GROUSE. 
BONAPARTE, PLATE XVIII. FEMALE. 
Linne, in his genus Tetrao , brought together so 
great a number of species hearing no more than a distant 
resemblance to each other, and differing not only in 
their external characters, but even in their peculiar 
habits, that he might, with almost the same propriety, 
have included in it all typical gallinaceous birds. Latham 
very judiciously separated the genus Tinamus , as well 
as that of Perdix , which latter he restored from Brisson. 
Illiger likewise contributed to our better knowledge of 
these birds by characterizing two more natural genera, 
Syrrhaptes and Ortygis. Temminck, in his Histoire 
des Gallinaces , carried the number to seven, but has 
since reduced it by reuniting Coturnix to Perdix . 
The true Tetraones are divided by Vieillot into tw r o 
genera, the Lagopodes forming a distinct one by 
themselves. These, however, we regard as no more 
than a subgenus, of which we distinguish three in our 
% Indians of Virginia, a branch of the Tuscaroras. 
f Uchees , a nation of Floridian Indians, speaking a curious language, 
full of particular sounds, not found in any other languages. They live 
among the Creeks. 
