ad seen a bird with peculiar feathers and colors passing over his house: it gave them notice of his approach. Children are discouraged from picking up certain feathers, as these tend to weaken memory, and the handling of the feathers of a scissor-tail hawk, called by the Atorais chaouneh, conduces to insanity.
Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1895), vol. 30 : 1908