Se eesON, | 4 ETHNOZOOLOGY OF THE TEWA INDIANS 47 
of the New World appear to be the Gila monster and the Mexican 
beaded lizard, neither of which occurs in northern New Mexico. 
Among the snakes the only poisonous one known in the region is the 
rattlesnake. The wound made by any reptile or other animal having 
teeth capable of lacerating the epidermis or flesh may of course become 
infected, just as a scratch produced by any inorganic substance may, 
and thus create the impression that the poison was injected at the 
time of the bite. Our Indian informants considered the swifts and 
horned lizards harmless, but declared. that the Sonora skink, of 
which a specimen was found by them, is poisonous. The Indians 
have the same so-called instinctive dread for the larger reptiles, par- 
ticularly snakes, as the whites, being startled when suddenly they 
come upon one, and disliking to handle them. They informed us 
that neither snakes nor lizards are used as food at present by the 
Tewa, but it is not unlikely that their ancestors used them, at least 
during times of famine. However, they could not have been at any 
time more than an insignificant article of food. 
There appears to be a widespread belief that the Indians of the 
Southwest generally are addicted to the use of reptiles for food. 
Whatever may be true of the past, this is not the case now. Rus- 
sell’s statement concerning the Pima Indians,! that ‘‘snakes are not 
eaten, even in times of famine, and the idea of eating lizards is 
repudiated with scorn,” is applicable to many other Southwestern 
tribes. 
LIZARDS 
¢—__—__. 
Crotaphytus collaris baileyi (Stejneger). Bailey’s Collared Lizard. 
This fine hzard probably occurs throughout the region, though we 
saw none. (©. collaris was reported at Santa Fe and San Ildefonso 
by Yarrow and Cope” long before the subspecies baileyi was de- 
scribed, but Stejneger* places our area within the range of baileyi 
and represents collaris as occurring from Pecos Valley eastward. 
ed ahaa SE 
Holbrookia maculata maculata (Girard). Common Spotted Lizard. 
1 Russell, Frank, The Pima Indians, Twenty-sizth Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethn., p. 83, 1908. 
2 Yarrow, H.C., Report upon the Collections of Batrachians and Reptiles made in Portions of Nevada, 
Utah, California, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona during the years 1871, 1872, 1873 and 1874, U.S. 
Geog. Explor. and Survey W. of 100th Meridian, v, p. 566, 1875; Check-List of North American Reptilia 
and Batrachia, with Catalogue of Specimens in U.S. National Museum, Bull. U. S. Nat. Museum, no. 24, 
p. 52, 1882. Cope, E. D., The Crocodilians, Lizards, and Snakes of North America, Ann. Rep. U. S. Nat. 
Museum for 1898, pp. 248-53, 1900. 
3 Stejneger, Leonhard, Annotated List of Reptiles and Batrachians Collected by Dr. C. Hart Merriam and 
Vernon Bailey on the San Francisco Mountain Plateau and Desert of the Little Colorado, Arizona, with 
descriptions of New Species, North American Fauna, no. 3, U. S. Dept. Agr., pp. 103-05, pl. xm, 1890. 
Ruthven, A: G., A Collection of Reptiles and Amphibians from Southern New Mexico and Arizona, 
Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., xx, pp. 512-14, 1907. 
