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Show 644 Standvtigel des WInters. 30. Parus bicolor. 31. , atrlcapillus. 32. Muscicapa coronata. 33. Slalia Wllsonl Sw. 34. Regulus cristatus. 35. Troglod. Iudovicianus. 36. , byemalis. 37. Columba carolinensis. 38 .. Meleagris Gallopavo. 39. Tetrao umbellus. 40. , Cupido. 41. Perdix virginiana. 42. Ardea herodiu. 43. Anser canadensis. 44. , bemicla. 45. Anas Bosohas tera. 46. , clangula amer. 47. Mergus Merganser. 48. , serrator. 49. , cucullatus. lj0, Falco Y In der Jm Februar Im Nov~>mber sind lm December r;weiten BilftE kamen noch auweseud: eiuzeln: des Jauuars: tturiick: Im Anfaug des Miirzes erschlenen bel Harmony: BeUage D. Ueber den Ursprung dcr Otos, Ayowls und Missourls, cine Sage, welcbe eiD alter Chef jener Nation dem Indian Agent Major Bean mitthellte. - ,Some time on the gear (es war vor der Ankunft der Weissen in America) a large band of Indians, we caU themselves Fisheaters (Boton-ga) who inhabit the lakes, being discontended and concluded that theg would migrate to the SouthWest in pursuite of the Buffaloe, and accordingly ditl so. At lake Puant theg divided and that part which remained, still continued their original name ,·n indian, but from some cause or other the whites called tllem Winnebagos. The rest, more enterprizing, still continued on the journey untill theg reached tlte 1J1issisippi and the mouth of the J owag- River, where they encamped on tlte Sftndbeac'h and again divided, one bttnd concluding not to go further, and those wlto still wished to go on called this band, which still remained encamped on the sandbeach ,Pa-hodje," or dust noses; but the wltites, who first discovered them on the Joway-Biver called them Joways (.A.yowiis). The rest of them continued on their direction, and struck the Missouri at the mouth of Grand-River. Having only two principal chiefs left, theg here gave themselves the name of Neu-ta-che (richtig ausgesprochen Ni-iu-ta-dje (j franz.), wltich means ,those that arrive at t!Je mouth" - ltut were called by the whites the Missoun"es. One of their chiefs had an only son, the other cMef had a beautiful daughter, and having both a jentle blood, thought no harm to absent themselves for a night or two together, which raised the anger of the unfortunate girf s father to suclt a pitcl•, tltat he martialed his band and prepared for battle. Theg howet,er settled it so far as not to come to blows, but the father of the unfortunate son separated from the others, ftnd continued still further up the Miuouri, where upon theg called themselves Wagh-toch-tat-ta (Wach- |