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'^.] ETHNOZOOLOGY OF THE TEWA INDIANS 53 



Cope ^ recognizes woodhousei and ix^cords it from other localities in 

 New Mexico, but not from these two places or from anywhere in our 

 area, and i)reserves Yarrow's americanus record at Plaza del Alcalde. 

 Miss Dickerson^ raises americanus to a full si)ecies, and says it "is the 

 common toad east of the Rocky Mountains from Mexico to the Great 

 Bear Lake/' while she leaves woodhousei as a subspecies of lentiginosus 

 and says it is ''the common toad of the Rocky Mountain region/' 

 having been reported from a number of States, including New 

 Mexico. Ruthven ^ says it is the "common toad of the Great Plains 

 and Great Basin region." 



Our San Ildefonso Indian informants reported "two kinds of 

 frogs" in the region of the Rito de los Frijoles, one of which is found 

 in the water, the other being larger and flatter and is found "jump- 

 ing " about on land. Probably the latter is a toad. As Bufo cognatus 

 Say is reported from Colorado, Kansas, and Arizona, it may extend 

 across New Mexico, or at least be found in the north';ni portion. 



Rana pipiens Schreber. Leopard Frog. 

 Frogs were recorded at Taos, Abiquiu, and Santa Fe under the 

 name Rana halecina herlandieri (Kahn) Cope, and at Taos under the 

 name Rana halecina halecina (Kalm) Cope, by Yarrow.* Cope after- 

 ward transferred these records to Rana virescens hrachycephala Cope.* 

 Miss Dickerson *' says virescens is Schreber's pipiens, which she is 

 unable to separate into subspecies. Further study of this variable 

 frog, based on large quantities of fresh material from widely sepa- 

 rated and numerous locaHties, is desii'able. We saw several frogs 

 at El Rito de los Frijoles, but unfortunately obtained none. (See 

 note on Rocky Mountain toad, page 52.) 



SALAMANDERS, FROGS, TOADS 



The Tewa appear to have but one name for all species of sala- 

 manders, and but one name for all species of frogs and toads. 



Po'qwse' means salamander. The first syllable is clearly the word 

 meaning 'water.' 



P'^-ykwdy is apphed to frogs and toads. Tadpoles are called 

 p'^'ykukede in the San Juan dialect, and either po'sahede or p'^'ijpw- 

 ke-ie in the San Ildefonso dialect. The etymology of these words is 

 not clear. It was thought by one informant that the tadpole's tail 

 drops off, 



1 Cope, E. D., op. cit., pp. 28^-88. 



2 Dickerson, Mary C, The Frog Book, pp. b3, 91-92, New York, 1906. 



3 Ruthven, A. G., A Collection of Reptiles and Amphibians from Southern New Mexico and Arizona, 

 Bull. A mer. Mus. Nat. Hist, xxra, p. 509, 1907. 



* Yarrow, H. C, Check-List, op. eit., p. 181, 



5 Cope, E. D., op. cit., pp. 403-04. 



6 Dickerson, Mary C, op. cit., p. 171, 



