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ppillccopichiu, which signifies a certain mountain bird highly 

 esteemed for its beautiful plumage/ 



These facts leave no reasonable doubt that this tribe was of the 

 Quechuan stock. 



The Juris (Quechua, suri^ ostrich^) had their habitations in the 

 foothills about S. latitude 27° (''near the sierra of Anconquija," 

 Lafone Quevedo). They are classed by D'Orbigny and Waitz 

 among the Guaranis, but Lafone Quevedo believes they spoke a dia- 

 lect of the Chaco. I included them {^American Race, p. 316) 

 among the Lule-Vilelas, from their location, but believe that it is 

 somewhat probable that they belonged to the Quechua stock. 



The Lule Stock. 



In my former classification of the Chaco tongues I placed the 

 Lule (of Machoni) and the Vilela under one group. ^ This has in a 

 measure been substantiated by Lafone Quevedo, though he be- 

 lieves the latter to be more of a jargon {mezcld) of a number of 

 tongues.^ 



This is, indeed, probable, as from their wandering habits Pel- 

 leschi calls them "the Jews of the Chaco." For this reason some 

 have included them with the Matacos. There are lexical analogies, 

 but the pronouns and the method of affixing them differ, the Vilela 

 suffixing the possessive. 



For the present, it seems necessary to leave them together and 

 separate from others. But the Tonocotes whom I grouped with 

 them are no doubt Matacos, the term being a corruption of Noctenes 

 or Ocieneei, modifications of their own name JIuenneyei, '' Men " 

 (Thouar, i, p. 56). 



Groups of Uncertain Affinities. 



The above-mentioned eight stocks are clearly recognized, there 

 being sufficient linguistic material to distinguish and classify them. 



1 Historia Provincice ParaquaricB, Lib. ii, cap. 7. 



2 Suri was also the general name given by the Quechuas to the Province of 

 Tucuman ; so it would have no ethnic significance applied to a tribe. 



3 The American Race, p. 316. 



* «' Se ha podido establecer el hecho que (la Vilela) tiene bastante afinidad 

 con el Lule de Machoni" (ii, p. 40). On the Lules of Barcena see under 

 Cacanas. Elsewhere Lafone Quevedo says, " Vilela, 6 Chulupi ^0 Chunupi es 

 un co-dialecto del Lule de Machoni" [Boletin del Inst. Geog. Argent., 1894, p- 

 520). 



