18 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BuLL, 44 
guage. Ribas also (145) mentions a tradition that this tribe came 
from the north with the Ahome, and, although speaking a different 
language and occupying localities widely separated, maintained con- 
stant friendship. As the language was still spoken as late as 1678, 
after the missionaries had established themselves in that section, and 
probably obtained this tradition from them, it is possibly reliable. 
According to Zapata (396), the Baimena (or Baitrena, as the name 
appears there) occupied the pueblo of Santa Catalina de Baitrena, 
situated some six leagues southeast of San José del Toro, the head of 
the partido, and spoke a language somewhat different from that of 
the Troe (Zoe). The latter resided in a neighboring pueblo bearing 
their own name and, like that of the Baimena, bordering the Tubar 
(“confinan tambien con los Tubares’’). The padre who ministered 
to these pueblos at the time Ribas wrote (1617-1640) was José de 
Tapia. 
The evidence appears to warrant, therefore, in the absence of vocabu- 
laries, the acceptance of Zoe as a distinct idiom and Baimena as identi- 
cal or closely related toit. There is, perhaps, justification for consid- 
ering both as dialects of the Yaqui group, or at least Nahuatlan, and 
they are so marked in the List of Linguistic Families and Tribes. 
Their area is designated on the map accompanying this paper. 
The territory in which the Tepahue (Tepave), Conicari, and 
Macoyahui dialects are said to have been spoken is situated on the 
northern border of the territory of the Yaqui group where it meets 
that of the Lower Pima and the Tarahumare. 
According to Zapata (385), the language spoken in the pueblo of 
Asuncion de Tepave (Tepaiie or Tepahue), situated five leagues north- 
east of Conicari, was ‘‘particular,’’ and was known as ‘“Tepave’’ 
(Tepahue) ; this was different from that of the other pueblos (Conicari 
and Macoyahui), though the latter people understood the Tepahue 
tongue and also that of the Yaqui group, but did not speak it. Al] 
three dialects are included by Orozco y Berra in the territory he 
marks ‘‘Tepahue”’ on his map, in the fork of the upper Mayo river. 
Ribas (253) speaks of them as friends of the Tehueco, and adds (265) 
that the pueblo of Conicari was distant from Chinipa sixteen leagues 
[west]. Zapata (384) says that the language spoken at this peublo 
is “particular,” but that some of the inhabitants are Mayo “en la 
nacion y en la lengua.’ 
The pueblo of Asuncién de Macoyahui, in which the Macoyahui lan- 
guage was spoken, was situated about seven leagues north of Conicari 
(Zapata, 386), though Orozco y Berra on his map places it west of 
the latter pueblo. The language, according to Zapata, was “particu- 
lar’’—‘‘la lengua es particular macoyahui con que son tres las lenguas 
de este partido’’—these are Conicari, Tepahue, and Macoyahui. 
Although they were extinct at the time Orozco y Berra wrote his 
