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TURTLES 



Only one name for species of turtle or tortoise was obtained from 

 the Tewa — this is 'o'Jcw. 



The ^o'Jcu' is common in the region. These turtles are found 

 mostly in meadows. They are killed and the carapaces are cleaned 

 and worn by dancers. 



Amphibians (Batrachians) 



The am])hibians of the region are not very important. Sala- 

 manders are rare, and the lack of w^ater restricts frogs and toads to 

 limited areas. Except the frogs, they are of no food value. None 

 of them is poisonous, though it seems that the whites generally look 

 upon the spotted salamander with fear. Having no specimens w^e 

 could not determine whether the Indians had the same dread. 



Amhi/stoma tigrinum (Green) . Tiger Salamander. 

 Keported at Santa Fe Creek, under the name Amhystoma mavortium 

 Baird, by Yarrow,^ and by Cope ^ under the name tigrinum. Amhy- 

 stoma trisruptum Cope was credited to Santa Fe by Yarrow,^ but 

 Cope * says the only known specimen is from Ocate Creek, east of the 

 mountains in northern New Mexico, and hence not in the Rio Grande 

 drainage. 



Spelerpes multiplicatus Cope(?). 

 We found a small salamander rather common under aspen logs 

 near Valle Grande, in the Jemez Mountains. Specimens badly 

 injured in transit were doubtfully identified as this species by Dr. 

 Leonhard Stejneger. The Indians to whom it was shown were not 

 familiar with it and had no name for it. 



Bufo lentiginosus woodhousei (Girard). Rocky Mountain Toad. 

 Bufo lentiginosus woodhousei was reported at Santa Fe and Plaza 

 del Alcalde in 1874, by Yarrow,^ who remarked that it was "appa- 

 rently numerous in New Mexico." In his Check-List" he gives the 

 Plaza del Alcalde record under the name americanus, does not recog- 

 nize woodhousei as a distinct form, and omits the Santa Fe record. 



1 Yarrow, H. C, Check-List of North American Reptilia and Batraehia, with Catalogue of Specimens in 

 U. S. National Museum, Bull. ^, U. S. Nat. Museum, p. 149, 1882. 



2 Cope, E. D., The Batraehia of North America, Bull. 34, U. S. Nat. Museum, p. 85, 1889. 



3 Yarrow, H. C, op. cit., p. 150. 

 * Cope, op. cit., p. 86. 



6 Yarrow, H. C, Report upon the Collections of Batrachians and Reptiles Made in Portions of Nevada, 

 Utah, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, During the Years 1871, 1872, 1873, and 1874, U. S, 

 Geog. Eiplor. & Surv. W. of 100th Merid., v, p..521, 1875, 



« Yarrow, H. C, Check-List, etc., op. cit., p. 166, 



