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Sialia mexicana bairdi Ridgway. Chestnut-backed Bluebird. 
Abundant everywhere on the mesas, but none in the canyons. Our 
Indian informants had noted the same fact. 
Paloma (<Span. paloma). 
Domestic Pigeon. 
Gatschet ! incorrectly gives “‘paréma”’ as the Tesuque name for 
pigeon. 
Pertka (<Span. perico). 
Pali (< Eng. polly). 
Hodge gives as a Parrot clan of Zufii, distinct from the Macaw clan, 
Piohi-kwe; there is also the testimony of Lummis that there is no 
Parrot clan at Isleta. 
Tanz. 
Macaw. 
This is the bird which the Mexicans call guacamayo. Its feathers 
are highly prized by the Tewa for ceremonial purposes. They state 
that the feathers and also live tafiz were obtained from Mexico in 
former times. The informants stated that a tami is at the present 
time kept in a cage at Santo Domingo pueblo. 
Hodge gives as Parrot clans of various pueblos (which are possibly 
Macaw clans): Laguna, Shdwiti-hdno”; Acoma, Shawit'-hanog™; Sia 
and Santa Ana, Shé’witi-hdno; San Felipe, Shé’wati-hdno; and as a 
Macaw clan of Zuni, Milakwe. 
Tsiue tse'jr’*, ‘yellow bird’ (tsize, bird; tse’, yellow). 
Canary. 
Some of the Mexicans who live in the Tewa country keep these 
birds in cages and call them canarios. 
Patoseal (<Span. pavo real). 
Peacock. 
Some of the Mexicans who live in the Tewa country keep these 
birds. 
The following are Tewa names of birds which we have not yet 
been able to identify with scientific names: 
Petsep‘e’’e*, perhaps the oriole. 
RKasaywe’, said to be similar to ix qwoue. 
Nex qwoue, said to be similar to havaywe’. 
Kwa qwesé, perhaps the common house swallow. 
Po:sakeg:, described as a small bird with needle-like nose. 
Nwe' ytsise, ‘pine bird’ (ywe'y, Pinus scopulorum; tsive, bird). 
This is described as a small bird with gray body and white 
head, which jumps about in the rock-pines. 
1A. 8. Gatschet, Zw6lf Sprachen aus dem Stidwesten Nordamerikas, Weimer, 1876, p. 40. 
