48 BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY [BULL. 44 
(1: 1, 56), alluding apparently to an earlier date, says their vil- 
lages extended northward to within a short distance of the ancient 
Tollan or Tula. As usual, Orozco y Berra determined the boundaries 
by the pueblos inhabited by people of this tribe. The Mazahua 
is included in the colored Otomian area of the map accompanying 
this paper. 
PIRINDA 
(Synonym: Matlaltzinco) 
Orozco y Berra (1: 273) has not marked on his map the area occu- 
pied by the people speaking this idiom, doubtless because of the fact 
that it does not appear that they had, in the historical era, any 
definite territory, a portion mingling with the Mexicans, but the 
greater part occupying pueblos in the territory of the Tarasco. 
Clavigero (1, 106) merely locates them in the ‘‘ fertile vale of Toluca,” 
which is immediately south of the Mazahuan territory. This state- 
ment, however, appears to refer to the tribe before it was con- ~ 
quered by Axayacatl, ‘‘king”’ of Mexico, as indicated by Pimentel, 
who, in connection with the quotation from Clavigero, says, ‘‘anciently 
in the valley of Toluca.” 
In the present classification the author has followed Brinton by 
including the tribe in the Otomian area. 
MeEco 
(Synonym: Jonaz) 
Bancroft (11, 743), on what authority the author is not aware, 
identifies the people speaking this language with the Serranos., Never- 
theless, in this way a difficulty otherwise unexplained is removed. 
He locates them “in the Sierra Gorda and in Guanahuato.” But 
Alcedo (tv, 567) says they live in the pueblo Soledad de las Canoas, 
in the state of Querétaro. Orozco y Berra (1: 264), whose state- 
ment is more exact, says they were gathered by the missionaries at 
the newly founded pueblo of San Luis de la Paz, and connects them 
with the people of San José Vizarron, in Querétaro. He also adds: 
“La parcialidad de chichimecos que fué congregada, pertenecia 4 la 
‘familia de los Tonases 6 Jonases cuya lengua se llamé Meco por los 
misioneros lo mismo que denominaron la de los habitantes de San 
José Vizarron.”’ 
HUASTECA 
As the relation of the Huastecan language to the Mayan stock 
is well known, it is necessary to note here only the evidence relating 
to the location of the tribe.” 
