Dec. 1896] ORNITHOLOGICAL VOCABULARY OF THE MOKIS 397 



Grus mexicana (Mull.), sandhill crane, ivlll-pdh' qua-pbe. 



Rallus virginianus Linn., Virginia rail, coim'up-hualch-rdd. 



Porzana Carolina (Linn.), sora, pah-la' huatch-rdd. 



Gallinula galeata (Licht.), Florida gallinule, pah-la' (jlie-kum'n-ah. 



Fnlica americana Gmel., American coot, qhe-kum'n'dh-nu-mush-tfjd-i. 



Steganopus tricolor Vieill., Wilson's phalarope, md-m,ofish'tdo-i-tuck-uh. 



Recurvirostra americana Gmel., American avocet, wtll-pom' tfid-vmh. 



Gallinago delicata (Grd.), Wilson's snipe, pdh-hual'e-6-shdne-eh. 



Tringa bairdii (Coues), Baird's sandpiper, pdh'ghe-rou. 



Tringa minutilla Vieill., least sandpiper, p8tch'ro8-hde-yuh. 



Ereunetes occidentalis Lawr., western sandpiper, ptitch'rtio-hoe-yuli. 



Totanus melanoleucus (Gmel.), greater yellow-legs, potch'rdo. 



Totanus flavipes (Gmel.), yellow-legs, pdtch-rod. 



Totanus solitarius cinnamomeus Brewster, western solitary sandpiper, 

 co-ghali'huatch-rdd. 



Symphemia semipalmata inornata Brewster, western willet, co-tfmsh' 'zhru. 



Actitis macularia (Linn.), spotted sandpiper, mdch-she'liuatch-rdd. 



Numenius longirostris Wile., long-billed curlew, ivlll-cd'hud-cdle-le. 



iEgialitis vocifera (Linn.), killdeer, pdh'kdle-le. 



iEgialitis montana (Towns.), mountain plover, pah' ' kdle-hoe-yuh. 



Gallus gallus (Linn.), domestic fowl, cu-dh'cu. (The Mokis raise a small 

 variety of fowl, a little larger than the bantam, wdiich they keep in 

 stone houses built for the purpose.) 



Callipepla gambelii (Gambel), Gambel's partridge, co-hua' 'go-hoe-yuh. 

 When asked to name a specimen of the scaled partridge ( Callipepla 

 squamata), they replied, "No sabe; no got 'em Moki country." 



Cyrtonyx montezumte (Vig.), Massena partridge, pm'td-hd-ia. 



Meleagris gallopavo mexicana (Gould), Mexican turkey, coi-yung'o. The 

 tuft of coarse hair growing from its breast they call coi-yung-ivork-se. 

 This bird was domesticated, history informs us, early in the sixteenth 

 century, at the time of the early Spanish invasion, not only by the 

 Mokis, but by other sedentary Indian tribes in New Mexico and 

 Arizona. 1 I have frequently found turkey bones when excavating 

 in the ruins of the cliff and cave dwellers in the valleys of the Rio 

 Verde and Salinas. 



Columba fasciata Say, band-tailed pigeon, tdn-dch'd hue'uilh. 



Zenaidura macroura (Linn.), mourning dove, pdh-ld' hue-wih. 



Melopelia leucoptera (Linn.), white-winged dove, pin'to hue-wlh. 



Columbigallina passerina pallescens (Baird), Mexican ground dove, pdh- 

 la'hue-wih. 



Scardafella inca (Less.), Inca dove, hue'e-vAh-qua. 



Cathartes aura (Linn.), turkey vulture, xoe-shoke'ko. 



Circus hudsonius (Linn.), marsk hawk, co-qhaw'kwo-pe or khun-qul-hua. 2 



1 In this connection see Davis's Conquest of New Mexico. The turkey was also domes- 

 ticated by the Aztecs. See Brancroft's Native Races of the Pacific States, n, 353, 1875. 



2 Qua-yuh or qua-ja is their generic term for hawks, and upon the word they ring 

 various changes. 



