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EDITORIAL GLEANINGS. 



Those of our readers who are interested in primitive aud local names 

 of birds and in Ornithological Folk-Lore generally, may well consult an 

 article written by Dr. Edgar A. Mearns in the last (December) number of 

 the ' American Anthropologist,' entitled " Ornithological Vocabulary of the 

 Moki Indians." 



"The Mokis inhabit a region of country in longitude 109°, lying just 

 west of the New Mexico-Arizoua boundary, north-eastward from the Little 

 Colorado river, and 65 miles south of the Colorado." 



The revision of the zoological vocabulary of the Moki language, of which 

 this'paper forms the ornithological portion, was made by the author with 

 the aid of an exceedingly intelligent Indian named Ongwischey, so that 

 mistakes should be few and misinterpretations seldom. It will be observed 

 that some of the Moki names are of Spanish origin : " The fact is, the 

 Moki tongue has become impure from contact with Mexicans and half- 

 bloods from some of the new Mexican pueblos, where Indians and 

 Mexicans live together." 



The Mokis show an excellent acquaintance with raptorial birds, and 

 Capt. Bourke is quoted for the fact that •■ Eagles are still raised in cages 

 in Picuris, San Ildefonso, Santa Clara, Zuni, Acoma, and the villages of 

 the Moquis farthest to the west." 



The specific names with Moki equivalents are given for 230 birds, though 

 of course some margin must be allowed for error; for, as the author cautiously 

 remarks: — " Although more attentive to nature than most whites, it must 

 be remembered that the Mokis are not ornithologists, aud cannot be expected 

 to name even all birds that have fallen under their observation, much less 

 such as have never attracted their critical attention, or to discriminate 

 between closely related species, or those which resemble one another in 

 colour or form." 



The Rev. H. A. Macpherson has contributed to the • Annals of Scottish 

 Natural History ' an account of " The Distribution of the Red Grouse, 

 Lagopus scoticm, and the Black Grouse, Lyrurus tetrix." The author 

 writes: — "The Red and Black Grouse are both so plentiful upon the 

 moors of the border counties of England and Scotland, that I have long 

 expected to come across some additional iustances of the well-known but 



