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The footprints of the road-runner resemble a letter X. They are 

 called by the same term as the foot itself: ogCttPi* tffj road-runner 

 foot or footprint ( ogowi , road-runner; $??, foot, footprint). 



Hodge gives as Road-runner clans of various pueblos: Laguna, 

 Shidslca-Jidno ch ; Acoma, Shdslc -hdnoq ch ; Sia, CJiosh Tca-hdno ; San 

 Felipe, Sdsh ka-hdno; Zuni, Poye-lcwe. The Handbook of Ameri 

 can Indians (following Fewkes) gives &quot; Hosboa&quot; as the Road-runner 

 or Pheasant clan of the Hopi. 



FH o. 



Dry abates villosus monticola Anthony. Rocky Mountain Hairy 



Woodpecker C?). 1 



Black above, with white stripe down back, white stripes about head, 

 white spots on wings, white outer tail-feathers, white beneath, and 

 male with red spot on back of head. Common throughout the region 

 in the canyons, on the mesas, and in the mountains. The alpine 

 three-toed woodpecker (Picoides americanus dorsalis Baird) occurs in 

 the high mountains of northern New Mexico . 2 Williamson s sapsucker 

 (Sphyrapicus tliyroideus [Cassin]) ranges southward as far as central 

 New Mexico and winters in the territory. The northern pileolated 

 woodpecker (Phlceotomus abieticola [Bangs]) extends into the forest 

 area of northern New Mexico. If the red-headed woodpecker 

 (Melanerpes eryihrocephalus [Linn.]) occurs, it is accidental. Lewis s 

 woodpecker (Asyndesmus lewisi Riley), black above, reddish beneath, 

 with a gray collar, should occur here. 



Colaptes cafer collaris Vigors. Red-shafted Flicker. 

 Very common in the canyons, on the mesas, and in the mountains. 

 Our Indian informants, in describing its habits, told of its boring into 

 trees for &quot; worms&quot; and for nesting sites, but had never observed its 

 very pronounced habit of alighting on the ground and searching for 

 ants, which was a daily sight at the Rito. 



Phalsenoptilus nuttalli nuttalli (Aud.). Poor-will. 

 We heard the mournful calls of this bird only in the Jemez Moun 

 tains, a few miles beyond the headwaters of El Rito de los Frijoles, 

 August 18 and 19, 1910. 



CJiordeiles virginianus Jienryi Cassin. Western Nighthawk. 

 On a cloudy day (August 2) hundreds of these useful birds were 

 circling over the mesa between Santa Fe and Buckman. At the Rito 

 there seemed to be very few of them. 



1 The Hairy Woodpecker of Arizona and New Mexico has been described as a new subspecies: Dryobates 

 villosus leucothorectis Oberholser. See Oberholser, II. C., A Revision of the Forms of the Hairy Wood 

 peckers (Dryobates villosus [Linnaeus]), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XL, pp. 608-09, 1911. 



A. 0. U. Check-List of North American Birds, p. 190. 



