6. Ru’-tce, Pigeon 1. Min-ke’ qan’-ye, Big-raccoon. 2. Min-ke’yiñ’-e, Young-raccoon 3. Ru’-tce yiñ’-e, Young-pigeon. 4. Ɔo’-ke, Prairie-chicken, grouse. 7. A’-ru-qwa, Buffalo 1. Tce-ʇo qan’-ye, Big-buffalo-bull. 2. Tce-ʇo yiñ’-o, Young-buffalo-bull. 3. Tce-p’o’-cke yiñ’-e, Young-buffalo-bull-that-is-distended (?). 4. Tce-yiñ’-ye, Buffalo-calf. 8. Wa-kan’, Snake. An 1. Wa-kan’ ɔ́i, Yellow-snake, i.e., extinct gens. Rattlesnake. 2. Wa-kan’-qtci, Real-snake, (named after a species shorter than the rattlesnake). 3. Ce’-ke yiñ’-e, Small or young ceke, the copperhead snake (?). 4. Wa-kan’ qo’-ʇɔe, Gray-snake (a long snake, which the Omaha call swift blue snake). 9. Mañ’-ko-ke, Owl. The names of the subgentes have been Extinct. forgotten. An account of the mythical origin of each Iowa gens, first recorded by the Reverend William Hamilton, has been published in the Journal of American Folk-lore.(7) The visiting and marriage customs of the Iowa did not differ from those of the cognate tribes, nor did their management of the children differ from that of the Dakota, the Omaha, and others. Murder was often punished with death, by the nearest of kin or by some friend of the murdered person. Sometimes, however, the murderer made presents to the avengers of blood, and was permitted to live. THE OTO The author has not yet learned the exact camping order of the Oto and Missouri tribes, though he has recorded lists of their gentes (subject to future revision), with the aid of Ke-ʞreɔ́e, an Oto, Ckaʇɔoinye, a Missouri, and Battiste Deroin, the interpreter for the two tribes. These gentes are as follows: 1, Pa-ça’, Beaver; 2, Tunan’-p’in, Black bear, or Mn-tci’-ra-tce, Wolf; 3, A-ru’-qwa, Buffalo; 4, Ru’-qtca, Pigeon; 5, Ma-ka’-tce, Owl; 6, Tce’-xi-ta, Eagle, Thunderbird, etc; 7, Wa-kan’, Snake. THE NI-U’-T’A-TCI OR MISSOURI This tribe, which for many years has been consolidated with the Oto, has at least three gentes. It may have had more, but their names have not yet been recorded. 1, Tu-nan’-p’in, Black bear; 2, Tce-xi’-ta, Eagle, Thunderbird, etc, in four subgentes: (_a_) Wa-kan’-ta, Thunderbird; (_b_) Qra, Eagle; (_c_) ʞre’-tan, Hawk; (_d_) Mo’-mi, A-people-who eat-no-small-birds-which-have-been-killed-by-larger-ones (a recent addition to this gens, probably from another tribe): 3, Ho-ma’ or Ho-ta’-tci, Elk. THE HOTCAÑGARA OR WINNEBAGO