46 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 56 
Tsise piv’, ‘ved bird’ (tsize, bird; pr’, red), applies to one or 
more species of small red bird. 
Kusey, a small bird. 
‘Onu’e’, perhaps a species of blackbird. 
’Ogoja’. 
Kawo-. 
Pyu. 
K'wtsise. 
Tse kang tsive. 
Katsiae, ‘leaf bird’ (ka‘, leaf; tsive, bird), a kind of small 
yellow bird. ; 
Te tse: (of obscure etymology), a species of small yellowish bird 
seen in cottonwood and other trees. 
Pojwy, ‘water mockingbird’ (po:, water; ju°y, mockingbird), a 
small, inconspicuous bird seen by water. Possibly the dipper 
(water ouzel), Cinclus mexicanus unicolor Bonaparte. 
Po'te’ji, probably the killdeer or ‘‘tildee.” The first syllable 
sounds like po:, ‘water.’ 
Pokepey, ‘water bent neck’ (for, water; ke, neck; pe'y, bent), 
some kind of water bird. It has long legs and is seen along 
the Rio Grande. Probably a heron. 
Kwa pie, ‘toward rain’ (kwd:, rain; pijé, toward), a heron-like 
species of bird. 
K@Wzwi. <A kind of blue bird seen in pifion trees. It is thought 
by the informant that Mexicans call it pifionero. 
Tsa’e’?. A large kind of bird. 
Tiye. A-species of large red bird. 
Puga. This is the bird which the Mexicans call grulla. It isa 
large, buff-colored bird seen wading or walking by the river. When 
it migrates it flies in a V-shape, making at times a peculiar whirring 
or trilled noise which can be heard even though, the birds be high 
in the air. Mrs. Stevenson! mentions the sandhill crane as known 
at Zufii. 
Hodge gives as Crane or Heron clans of various pueblos: Hano, 
Kapilo-téwa (the Rio Grande Tewa do not know the word kapulo) ; 
Sia, Shita-hano: Zui, Ka’lokta-kwe. 
REPTILES 
The smaller lizards, especially the swifts, are very abundant 
throughout the region. Horned lizards (popularly called ‘horned 
toads”) are by no means infrequent. The larger lizards are either 
not abundant or more adept at escaping observation. None of the 
lizards found here are poisonous. The only known poisonous lizards 
1 Stevenson, M. C., The Zuni Indians, Twenty-third Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethn., p. 292, 1904. 
