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TURTLES 
Only one name for species of turtle or tortoise was obtained from 
the Tewa—this 1s ’o°ku’. 
The ’o'ku’ is common in the region. These turtles are found 
mostly in meadows. They are killed and the carapaces are cleaned 
and worn by dancers. 
AMPHIBIANS (BATRACHIANS) 
The amphibians of the region are not very important. Sala- 
manders are rare, and the lack of water restricts frogs and toads to 
limited areas. Except the frogs, they are of no food value. None 
of them is poisonous, though it seems that the whites generally look 
upon the spotted salamander with fear. Having no specimens we 
could not determine whether the Indians had the same dread. 
? 
Ambystoma tigrinum (Green). Tiger Salamander. 
Reported at Santa Fe Creek, under the name Ambystoma mavortium 
Baird, by Yarrow,! and by Cope? under the name tigrinum. Amby- 
stoma trisruptum Cope was credited to Santa Fe by Yarrow,’ but 
Cope ‘ says the only known specimen is from Ocate Creek, east of the 
mountains in northern New Mexico, and hence not in the Rio Grande 
drainage. 
a 
Spelerpes multiplicatus Cope(%). 
We found a small salamander rather common under aspen logs 
near Valle Grande, in the Jemez Mountains. Specimens badly 
injured in transit were doubtfully identified as this species by Dr. 
Leonhard Stejneger. The Indians to whom it was shown were not 
familiar with it and had no name for it. 
Y 
Bufo lentiginosus woodhousei (Girard). Rocky Mountain Toad. 
Bufo lentiginosus woodhousei was reported at Santa Fe and Plaza 
del Alcalde in 1874, by Yarrow,® who remarked that it was ‘‘appa- 
rently numerous in New Mexico.” In his Check-List ° he gives the 
Plaza del Alcalde record under the name americanus, does not recog- 
nize woodhousei as a distinct form, and omits the Santa Fe record. 
1 Yarrow, H. C., Check-List of North American Reptilia and Batrachia, with Catalogue of Specimens in 
U.S. National Museum, Bull. 24, U.S. Nat. Museum, p. 149, 1882. 
2 Cope, E. D., The Batrachia of North America, Bull. 34, U.S. Nat. Museum, p. 85, 1889. 
3 Yarrow, H.C.., op. cit., p. 150. 
4 Cope, op. cit., p. 86. 
6 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. & Surv. W. of 100th Merid., v, p. 521, 1875. 
6 Yarrow, H. C., Check-List, etc., op. cit., p. 166. 
