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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: 'og.owi-'Qy, 'road-runner 

 foot or footprint' (Jogowr, road-runner; 'qV, foot, footprint). 



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

 Shidska-hdno"^ ; Acoma, ShdsF-Mnoq^f^; Sia, Chosh'lca-hdno; San 

 Felipe, Sosh'lca-hdno; Zuni, Poye-'kwe. The Handbook of Ameri- 

 can Indians (following Fewkes) gives " Hoshoa" as the Road-runner 

 or Pheasant clan of the Hopi. 



P'i'o. 



Dryohates villosus monticola Anthony. Rocky Mountain Hairy 

 Woodpecker (?).^ 

 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 ? Williamson's sapsucker 

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

 New Mexico and winters in the territory. The northern pileolated 

 woodpecker {Pldccotomus ahieticola [Bangs]) extends into the forest 

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

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

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

 with a gray collar, should occur here. 



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Colaptes cafer coUaris Vigors. Red-shafted Flicker. 

 Verv 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 ''worms" 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. 



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Phdlsenoptilus 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. 



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ChordeUes virginianus lienryi Cass hi. 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 descriljcd as a new subspecies: Dryohates 

 villosus leucothorectis Oberholser. See Oberholscr, H. C, A Revision of the Forms of the Hairy Wood- 

 peckers (Dryobates villosus [Linnfpus]), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XL, pp. (508-09, 1911, 



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



