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bluish-gray, the head a trifle darker than the back, lighter blue 

 below, tail shorter than whig; the Woodhouse jay not bluish below, 

 wing shorter than tail. They are both abundant among the pinon 

 pines and cedars of the mesas. We did not observe them in the 

 mountains and seldom in the canyons. The name a pinonero&quot; is 

 applied to both species by the Mexicans, who do not distinguish them 

 apart and find both together among the pinon pines, though Coues 

 and other ornithologists have assumed that it meant only the pinon 

 jay. It is to these two species, probably, that Bandelier refers 1 

 when he says: &quot; These trees are also beset by flocks of the Picicorvus 

 columbinus (called Pinonero in Spanish and sho-hak-ka in Queres), a 

 handsome bird, which ruthlessly plunders the nut-bearing pines, 

 uttering discordant shrieks and piercing cries.&quot; These two jays 

 have always been found in large numbers in such situations and 

 could not have escaped his notice, while Clarke s nutcracker, whose 

 former technical name Bandelier used, was not noted by us anywhere 

 in the pinon-cedar belt and would not be so likely to occur there. 



8e. 



Perisoreus canadensis capitalis Ridgway. Rocky Mountain Jay. 

 This jay, about the size of the preceding species, is very similar to 

 the gray Canada jay or &quot; whisky jack&quot; of the Northeastern States, 

 but its head is almost entirely white. Northern New Mexico is 

 included within its range, but it would likely occur only in the highest 

 mountains except in the winter. 



Wo. 



Corvus brachyrhyncJios brachyrliynchos Brehm. Crow. 



The Tewa appear to designate crow and raven by this one name. 

 Mrs. Stevenson 2 gives u kaka&quot; as the Zuni word meaning &quot;raven&quot; 

 (or crow?). Cushing 3 tells the Zuni story of the origin of the crow, 

 in which he says &quot;they (the crows) flew away laughing Ka-lia, Ka- 

 ha, as they ve laughed ever since.&quot; The imitated call is interesting 

 in connection with the Zuni name for crow. In the same article 

 Cushing tells how the Zuni keep crgws away from sprouting corn by 

 means of scarecrows. 



As Crow clans at various pueblos Hodge gives: Jemez, Ryialish; 

 Pecos, Kyid Jd+; Sia, ScMra-Mno; San Felipe, Schirld-Mno. 



A number o f crows were seen and heard in the Jemez Mountains, 

 near Valle Grande, perhaps of this form which is reported on the 

 Pecos, to the eastward, by Mrs. Bailey, though they may be of the 

 western form, C. b. hesperis Ridgway. The white-necked raven (Cor- 



1 Bandelier, A. F., Final Report, pt. I, Papers Archxol. Inst. Amer., Amer. Scr., iv, p. 150 r 1892. 



2 Stevenson, M. C., The Zuni Indians, Twenty-third Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Ethn. t p. 51, 1904. 

 Cushing, F. H., Zuni Breadstuff, The Millstone, May, 1884, pp. 77-78. 



