[Frederic Shonnard & W.W. Spooner (1900)] Tarackan, "the crane." The name was derived from the loud and piercing cry peculiar to the genus, especially to the Grus americana or Whooping Crane, which, says Nuttall, has been "not unaptly compared to the whoop or yell of the savages when rushing to battle." (Trumbull.) Tunkitekes.— Name of tribe living back of Sing Sing. This is probably a term of derision applied to them by other tribes : " Those of little worth." Tatomuck.— This name has probably lost a syllable or more. The suffix indicates a « fish-ing-place." On Long Island Arhata-amuck denotes "a crab fishing-place." Corrupted m some records to Katawamac. Toquams.—Ynv., Toquamske. This was a boundary mark in some conveyance, or else a well known landmark; p'tukqu-ompsk, "at the round-rock." Titicus.—A brook flowing north and west across the State line into the Croton River; also a village and postoffice in Connecticut. An abbreviation of Mutightkoos or Matteticos. 50 HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY Tuckahoe.— Hill in Yonkers. This appears in Southampton, L. I., and elsewhere, and seems to have been applied to a species of truffle or subterranean fungus (Pachyma cocos— Fries) sometimes called Indian loaf. The tuckaho of Virginia (tockwhogh, as Captain John Smith wrote the name) was the root of the Golden Club or Floating Arum (Oranthim Aquati-cum). -'It groweth like a flag in low, marshy places. In one day a sal vage will gather sufficient for a week.