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bluish-gray, the head a trifle darker than the back, lighter blue 
below, tail shorter than wing; the Woodhouse jay not bluish below, 
wing shorter than tail. They are both abundant among the pifon 
pines and cedars of the mesas. We did not observe them in the 
mountains and seldom in the canyons. The name “‘pifonero’’ 1s 
applied to both species by the Mexicans, who do not distinguish them 
apart and find both together among the pifion pines, though Coues 
and other ornithologists have assumed that it meant only the piiion 
jay. It is to these two species; probably, that Bandelier refers? 
when he says: ‘These trees are also beset by flocks of the Picicorvus 
columbinus (called Pifionero in Spanish and sho-hak-ka in Queres), a 
handsome bird, which ruthlessly plunders the nut-bearing pines, 
uttermg discordant shrieks and piercing cries.’’ These two jays 
have always been found in Jarge numbers in such situations and 
could not have escaped his notice, while Clarke’s nutcracker, whose 
former technical name Bandelier used, was not noted by us anywhere 
in the pifion-cedar belt and would not be so likely to occur there. 
Se. 
Perisoreus canadensis capitalis Ridgway. Rocky Mountain Jay. 
This jay, about the size of the preceding species, is very similar to 
the gray Canada jay or “whisky jack” of the Northeastern States, 
but its head is almost entirely white. Northern New Mexico is 
included within its range, but it would likely occur only in the highest 
mountains except in the winter, 
Odo. 
Corvus brachyrhynchos brachyrhynchos Brehm. Crow. 
The Tewa appear to designate crow and raven by this one name. 
Mrs. Stevenson? gives “kaka” as the Zufi word meaning “raven” 
(or crow?). Cushing * tells the Zuni story of the origin of the crow, 
in which he says ‘“‘they (the crows) flew away laughing K4-ha, Ka- 
ha, as they’ve laughed ever since.’ The imitated call is interesting 
in connection with the Zufii name for crow. In the same article 
Cushing tells how the Zufi keep crows away from sprouting corn by 
means of scarecrows. 
As Crow clans at various pueblos Hodge gives: Jemez, Kyialish; 
Pecos, Kyid‘hl+; Sia, Schira-hdno; San Felipe, Schirld-hdno. 
A number of crows were seen and heard in the Jemez Mountains, 
near Valle Grande, perhaps of this form which is reported on the 
Pecos, to the eastward, by Mrs. Bailey, though they may be of the 
western form, C. 6. hesperis Ridgway. The white-necked raven (Cor- 
1 Bandelier, A. F., Final Report, pt. 1, Papers Archxol. Inst. Amer., Amer. Ser., Iv, p. 150, 1892. 
2 Stevenson, M. C., The Zuni Indians, Twenty-third Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethn., p. Sl, 1904s, 
3 Cushing, F. H., Zuni Breadstuff, The Millstone, May, 1884, pp. 77-78. 
