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Reported at Santa Fe by Yarrow and Cope.' 
Kouohty. 
Phrynosoma cornutum Harlan. Southern Horned Lizard. 
Reported at San Ildefonso and Abiquiu by Yarrow,? and at Taos, 
Abiquiu, and San Ildefonso by Cope.’ 
Kowohyy. 
Anota modesta Girard. Little Horned Lizard. 
Recorded at San Ildefonso by Yarrow and Cope.‘ 
2 
Cnemidophorus tessellatus perplecus (Baird & Girard). Seven- 
striped Lizard. 
Recorded at San Ildefonso by Yarrow and Cope.’ This is Yarrow’s 
C. octolineatus Baird, from the same locality.6 Possibly the sub- 
specific name perplexus should be dropped. 
2 
Cnemidophorus sexlineatus (Linn.). Srx-lined Lizard. 
Recorded at Santa Fe, Plaza del Alcalde, and Abiquiu to Jemez, 
by Yarrow and Cope.7 This record possibly should be referred to 
C. gularis Baird & Girard. 
Kody’u. 
Eumeces obsoletus (Baird & Girard). Sonora Skink. 
Two fine specimens of this lizard, with the edges of the scales quite 
dark, were unearthed by the Indians in excavating the old pueblo at 
E] Rito de los Frijoles. One was captured, the other escaped. Old 
men of San Ildefonso declared that it is poisonous and would not 
touch it. They have a ‘‘remedy”’’ for its bite. They are mistaken 
as to its poisonous character. The Mexicans call this kind of lizard 
escurpion. 
Besides the kowoh¢y, ‘horned lizard,’ which the Mexicans call 
camaleon, the Tewa have names for five other kinds of native lizards: 
Qui'pa'je is a lizard which is sometimes as long as the fsx-qwijé 
(see below). It is blue-bellied and gray-backed. 
Tso-nde-, a lizard of bluish color, a little longer than the tse-uzqwiy. 
Tse-uaquwin, a species of small, inconspicuous lizard. The descrip- 
tion reminds one of the swift. The first syllable of the name seems 
to be tse’, ‘face.’ 
Tseqwije, ‘white stripes’ (ész’, white; qwijé, stripe). This lizard 
has white stripes down its back. 
1 Yarrow, H. C , Check-List, op. cit., p. 69. Cope, E. D., op. cit., p. 417. 
2 Yarrow, H. C., Report, op. cit., p. 579; Check-List, op. cit., p. 66. 
3 Cope, E. D., op. cit., p. 436. 
4 Yarrow, H. C., Check-List, op. cit., p. 64. Cope, E. D., op. cit., p. 439. 
5 Yarrow, Check-List, op. cit., p. 44. Cope, E. D., op. cit., p. 574. 
6 Yarrow, H. C., Report, op. cit., p. 558. 
7 Yarrow, H. C., Report, op. cit., p. 558; Check-List, op. cit., p. 43. Cope, E. D., op. cit., p. 597. 
