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Gatschet ^ gives Tewa "koyo" erroneously as meaning coyote and 

 compares it with Nahua coijotl. 



Hodge gives as Wolf clans ol pueblos: Isleta, Tuim-t' alnin; Laguna, 

 KdMian-hano'^^ . 



The Tewa say that the gray wolf is very scarce now, but is still 

 occasionally seen in the Taos mountains. It is common in many 

 portions of New Mexico and is reported at Taos by Bailey.- 



Mu'jo'. 

 ?Red fox. 

 The Tewa are familiar with a foxlike animal called 7ny,'jo', al- 

 though they say it is seldom seen. It is said to resemble the 

 de' tsa''pws^''i''^ (see below), but is of a dark brownish-yellow color. 



^)e' tsQ'yw^'H'^, 'blue coyote' (^e*, coyote; tsq,'V^se', blue, green). 



Urocyon cinereoargenteus scotti Mearns. Scott's Gray Fox, Pinon 



Fox. 



Coues and Yarrow ^ recorded Urocyon cinereo-argentateus Schreber 



from Taos, but the specunen was more likely scotti, a species more 



recently described. Mr. Nathan Do well reports both the gray and 



the red fox at El Rito de los Frijoles, but we can not know just what 



species without specimens for identification. 



K's^'ytsx', 'white mountain lion' (Vse'rj, mountain lion; fss^', 



white). 

 Any kind of wildcat. 



The Southern Ute also have only one word for wildcat species: 

 mosutukwUs'i. The Southern Ute word meaning 'medicine man' 

 appears to be related: mosutukwtdto. 



The Tewa name may apply to a species of bobcat or lynx or per- 

 haps to both a species of bobcat and a species of lynx. The inform- 

 ants did not know the characters by wHch the bobcat and lynx are 

 distinguished. We saw no Jc'p^'yfss^', but saw the tracks of one near 

 the Painted Cave. It is likely that either haileyi or uinta would be 

 found here, perhaps both, the former being an animal of the plains 

 and the latter a mountain-loving animal. 



The name shows that this animal is closely associated with the 

 mountain lion in the minds of the Tewa. 



Musd. 



Domestic Cat. 

 This word in this or similar form appears in most of the languages 

 of the Southwest, meaning introduced house cat. Compare also Tewa 

 po'musd, raccoon. 



1 Zwolf Sprachen aus dem Sudwesten Nordamerikas, Weimar, 1876, p. 26. 



2 Bailey, Vernon, Wolves in Relation to Stock, Game, and the National Forest Reserves, Bull, No. 72, 

 Forest Service, U. S. Dept. Agr., p. 12, 1907; Destruction of Wolves and Coyotes, Circular No. 63, Biol. 

 Surv., U. S. Dept. Agr., -p. e,WOS. 



3 Op. cit., Wheeler Survey, v, p. 56. 



