46 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [bdll. 56 



Tside pi'^i'^, 'red bird' {tsiue, bird; pi', red), applies to one or 



more species of small red bird. 

 Kuse'tj, a small bird. 

 'Onu'e' , perhaps a species of blackbird. 

 'Ogojcf. 

 Ka'wo'. 

 Piju. 

 K'u'tsiue. 

 Tse-Jcqna tsiie. 

 Ka'tsiie, 'leaf bird' Qca: , leaf; tside, bird), a kind of small 



yellow bird. 

 Te'tse: (of obscure etymology), a species of small yellowish bird 



seen in cottonwood and other trees. 

 Po'jii'y, 'water mockingbird' ipo' , water; jii'y, mockingbird), a 

 small, incons]iicuous bird seen by water. Possibly the dipper 

 (water ouzel), Cinclus mexicanus unicolor Bonaparte. 

 Po'te'ji, probably the killdeer or "tildee." The first syllable 



sounds like po' , 'water.' 

 Po'hep^-y, 'water bent neck' (po', water; he, neck; p^'y, bent), 

 some kind of water bird. It has long legs and is seen along 

 the Rio Grande. Probably a heron. 

 Kwq'pije, 'toward rain' (kwqr, rain; jnje, toward), a heron-like 



species of bird. 

 K'd'mvi. A kind of blue bird seen in pinon trees. It is thought 



by the informant that Mexicans call it pinonero. 

 Tsq,'^'^. A large kind of bird. 

 Ti'y'e'. A species of large red bird. 



Puga. This is the bird which the Mexicans call grulla. It is a 

 large, buff-colored bird seen wading or walkmg by the river. When 

 it migrates it flies in a V-shape, making at times a peculiar whirring 

 or trilled noise which can be heard even though the birds be high 

 in the air. Mrs. Stevenson ^ mentions the sandhill crane as known 

 at Zuni. 



Hodge gives as Crane or Heron clans of various puebk)s: Hano, 

 Kapulo-towa (the Rio Grande Tewa do not know the word Tcapulo); 

 Sia, Shuta-hano: Zuni, Kd'lokta-kwe. 



Reptiles 



The smaller lizards, especially the swifts, are very abundant 

 throughout the region. Horned lizards (popularly called "horned 

 toads") are by no means infrequent. The larger lizards are either 

 not abundant or more adept at escaping observation. None of the 

 lizards found here are poisonous. The only known poisonous lizards 



' Stevenson, M. C, The Zuni Indians, Ticenly-lhird Ann. Rep. Bur. Amer. Elhn.,p. 292, 1904. 



