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Cope! recognizes woodhouser and records it from other localities in 
New Mexico, but not from these two places or from anywhere in our 
area, and preserves Yarrow’s americanus record at Plaza del Alcalde. 
Miss Dickerson? raises americanus to a full species, and says it ‘‘is the 
common toad east of the Rocky Mountains from Mexico to the Great 
Bear Lake,” while she leaves woodhousei as a subspecies of lentiginosus 
and says it is “‘the common toad of the Rocky Mountain region,” 
having been reported from a number of States, including New 
Mexico. Ruthven * says it is the ‘‘common toad of the Great Plains 
and Great Basin region.”’ 
Our San Ildefonso Indian informants reported ‘‘two kinds of 
frogs” in the region of the Rito de los Frijoles, one of which is found 
in the water, the other being larger and flatter and is found ‘‘jump- 
ing” about on Jand. Probably the latter is a toad. As Bufo cognatus 
Say is reported from Colorado, Kansas, and Arizona, it may extend 
across New Mexico, or at least be found in the northyrn portion. 
2 
Rana pipiens Schreber. Leopard Frog. 
Frogs were recorded at Taos, Abiquiu, and Santa Fe under the 
name Lana halecina berlandivert (Kalm) Cope, and at Taos under the 
name Rana halecina halecina (Kalm) Cope, by Yarrow.‘ Cope after- 
ward transferred these records to Rana virescens brachycephala Cope.® 
Miss Dickerson * says virescens is Schreber’s pipiens, which she is 
unable to separate into subspecies. Further study of this variable 
frog, based on large quantities of fresh material from widely sepa- 
rated and numerous localities, is desirable. We saw several frogs 
at El Rito de los Frijoles, but unfortunately obtained none. (See 
note on Rocky Mountain toad, page 52.) 
SALAMANDERS, FROGS, TOADS 
The Tewa appear to have but one name for all species of sala- 
manders, and but one name for all species of frogs and toads. 
Po-qwe means salamander. The first syllable is clearly the word 
meaning ‘ water.’ 
Pe ynkwdy is applied to frogs and toads. Tadpoles are called 
pe nkukeuse in the San Juan dialect, and either po-sakeue or p'eypu- 
kee in the San Ildefonso dialect. The etymology of these words is 
not clear. It was thought by one informant that the tadpole’s tail 
drops off. 
1 Cope, E. D., op. cit., pp. 281-88. 
2 Dickerson, ees C., The Frog Book, pp. 63, 91-92, New York, 1906. 
3 Ruthven, A. G., A Chllection: of Reptiles and Amphibians from Southern New Mexico and ann. 
Bull. Amer.-Mus. Nat. Hist, Xxm, p. 509, 1907. 
4 Yarrow, H. C., Check-List, op. cit., p. 181. 
5 Cope, E. D., op. cit., pp. 403-04. 
6 Dickerson, Mary C., op. cit., p. 171. 
