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The footprints of the road-runner resemble a letter X. They are 
called by the same term as the foot itself: ’ogowv’ dy, ‘road-runner 
foot or footprint’ (ogowi-, road-runner; ’¢y, foot, footprint). 
Hodge gives as Road-runner clans of various pueblos: Laguna, 
Shidska-hdno’; Acoma, Shdsk’-hdnoq™; Sia, Chésh’ka-hdno; San 
Felipe, Sésh’ka-hdno; Zui, Poye-kwe. The Handbook of Ameri- 
can Indians (following Fewkes) gives “‘ Hosboa”’ as the Road-nummer 
or Pheasant clan of the Hopi. 
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Dryobates villosus monticola Anthony. Rocky Mountain Hairy 
Woodpecker (?).! 
Black above, with white stripe down back, white stripes about head, 
white spots on wings, white outer tail-feathers, white beneath, and 
male with red spot on back of head. Common throughout the region— 
in the canyons, on the mesas, and in the mountains. The alpine 
three-toed woodpecker (Picoides americanus dorsalis Baird) occurs in 
the high mountains of northern New Mexico.’ Williamson’s sapsucker 
(Sphyrapicus thyroideus [Cassin]) ranges southward as far as central 
New Mexico and winters in the territory. The northern pileolated 
woodpecker (Phlaotomus albieticola [Bangs]) extends into the forest 
area of northern New Mexico. If the red-headed woodpecker 
(Melanerpes erythrocephalus |Linn.]) occurs, it is accidental. Lewis’s 
woodpecker (Asyndesmus lewist Riley), black above, reddish beneath, 
with a gray collar, should occur here. 
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Colaptes cafer collaris Vigors. Red-shafted Flicker. 
Very common in the canyons, on the mesas, and in the mountains. 
Our Indian informants, in describing its habits, told of its boring into 
trees for ‘‘worms”’ and for nesting sites, but had never observed its 
very pronounced habit of alighting on the ground and searching for 
ants, which was a daily sight at the Rito. 
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Phalenoptilus nuttalli nuttalli (Aud.). Poor-will. 
We heard the mournful calls of this bird only in the Jemez Moun- 
tains, a few miles beyond the headwaters of El Rito de los Frijoles, 
August 18 and 19, 1910. 
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Chordeiles virginianus henryi Cassin. Western Nighthawk. 
On a cloudy day (August 2) hundreds of these useful birds were 
circling over the mesa between Santa Fe and Buckman.. At the Rito 
there seemed to be very few of them. 
1The Hairy Woodpecker of Arizona and New Mexico has been described as a new subspecies: Dryobates 
villosus leucothorectis Oberholser. See Oberholser, H. C., A Revision of the Forms of the Hairy Wood- 
peckers (Dryobates villosus [Linnzeus]), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XL, pp. 608-09, 1911. 
2A.0O, U. Check-List of North American Birds, p. 190. fe: 
