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Gatschet ! gives Tewa ‘‘kéyo” erroneously as meaning coyote and 
compares it with Nahua coyoil. 
Hodge gives as Wolf clans of pueblos: Isleta, Tuim-tainin; Laguna, 
Kéakhan-hano™. 
The Tewa say that the gray wolf is very scarce now, but is still 
occasionally. seen in the Taos mountains. It is common in many 
portions of New Mexico and is reported at Taos by Bailey 
My'jo°. 
¢Red fox. 
The Tewa are familiar with a foxlike animal called mu‘jo’, al- 
though they say it is seldom seen. It is said to resemble the 
de: tsd'ywe’t’* (see below), but is of a dark brownish-yellow color. 
De: tsé'ywe'’i’', ‘blue coyote’ (de’, coyote; tsd'ywe’, blue, green). 
Urocyon cinereoargenteus scotti Mearns. Scott’s Gray Fox, Pifion 
Fox. 
Coues and Yarrow * recorded Urocyon cinereo-argentateus Schreber 
from Taos, but the specimen was more likely scotti, a species more 
recently described. Mr. Nathan Dowell reports both the gray and 
the red fox at El Rito de los Frijoles, but we can not know just what 
species without specimens for identification. 
K‘z'ytse’, ‘white mountain lion’ (k'x#'y, mountain lion; ise’, 
white). 
Any kind of wildcat. 
The Southern Ute also have only one word for wildcat species: 
mosttukwitst. The Southern Ute word meaning ‘medicine man’ 
appears to be related: mostitukwiato. 
The Tewa name may apply to a species of bobcat or lynx or per- 
haps to both a species of bobcat and a species of lynx. The inform- 
ants did not know the characters by which the bobcat and lynx are 
distinguished. We saw no k‘x‘ytsx:, but saw the tracks of one near 
the Painted Cave. It is likely that either baileyi or winta would be 
found here, perhaps both, the former being an animal of the plains 
and the latter a mountain-loving animal. 
The name shows that this animal is closely associated with the 
mountain lion in the minds of the Tewa. 
Musa. 
Domestic Cat. 
This word in this or similar form appears in most of the languages 
of the Southwest, meaning introduced house cat. Compare also Tewa 
pomusa, raccoon. 
1 Zwolf Sprachen aus dem Stidwesten Nordamerikas, Weimar, 1876, p. 26. : 
2 Bailey, Vernon, Wolves in Relation to Stock, Game, and the National Forest Reserves, Bull. No. 72, 
Forest Service, U. S. Dept. Agr., p. 12, 1907; Destruction of Wolves and Coyotes, Circular No. 63, Biol, 
Surv., U.S. Dept. Agr., p. 6, 1908. . 
3 Op. cit., Wheeler Survey, V, p. 56. ; 
