Ethnozoology of the Tewa Indians / by Junius Henderson and John Peabody Harrington.

  • Henderson, Junius, 1865-1937.
Date:
1914
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Credit: Ethnozoology of the Tewa Indians / by Junius Henderson and John Peabody Harrington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    IIAUUINOTONJ ^ .ywri). Perogmithus flavescens Merriimi. Plains ]^)ckot jVIousc. Reported at Santa Fe by Osgoodd .ywiij. Perogmithus flavus Baird. Baird’s Pocket Mouse. Keported at Taos by Osgood ,ywrv- Perogmithus of ache Merriam. Apache Pocket Mouse. Keported at Esj)anola, San Pedro, and Santa Fe, by Osgood.^ Tf ug'i. Thoviomys aureus peivagus Merriain. Jioaining Pocket Go])lier. 'I'lio type locality is Espailola.^ Gopher mounds are abundant at El Kito de los Frijoles, but we obtained no specimens of the gopher for identification. They may be this species, which was described from a locality not far away. The Indians accurately described the habits of the animal m digging its holes, puslinig the earth out to form a mound, and then covering the entrance with earth by working from within. ? J/icroius mordax Merriam. Cantankerous Vole, Field Mouse. Keported at Chama by Bailey.® A good Ime of traps repeatedly set in all sorts of places at El Kito de los Frijoles faile(l to catch any voles or indeed any of the mam- mals smaller than chipmunks excej)t deer-mice. •( Fiber zibethicus osoyoosensis Lord. Muskrat. Keported at Kinconada (north of Santa Fe), by 1 lollister,® who also records F. z. pallidus Mearns at Albucjuerque. Pini’i ? Neotoma albigula \ lsiTt\ej. White-throated Wood Kat. Kejiorted at Abiquiu, Chama Canyon, Espanola, San Pedro, Santa Clara Canyon, Kinconado, etc., by Goldman.^ Both whites and Indians described a bluish-gray, round-tailed rat which gathers pinon nuts for winter food at El Kito de los Frijoles, and we saw one nest winch seemed to be that of a wood rat. No specimens were obtained for identification. San lldefonso Indians I OsKowl, Wilfred H., Kevision of the Pocket Mice of the (ienu.s Peropiaihus, A'or/A American Fauna, no. IS, Biol. Surv., C. S. Dept. Aar., pp. 20-21, liJOO. ni)id.,pi>. 2tJ-2l. ’ Ibid., pp. 2(>-27. * .Merriam, C. Hart, Descriptions of Twenty-Three New Pocket Gophers of the Genus Thomoinys, Froc. Biol. Soc. lPtt»/i., XIV, i>. no, 1901. ■ Bailey, \'<!nion. Revision of .\morican Voles of the Genus Microtus, North American Fauna, no. 17, Biol. Surv., II. S. Di^pl. Ajir., jip. lO-.W, 1900. « HollLsIer, N., A Systenmlie Hynojisis of the Muskrats, North American Fauna, no. :12, Biol. Surv., U. S. Dei»t. A(!r., j). 20, Bill. ■ Golilman, ICdward .\., Kevision of the Wood Bats of the Genus Ncotoma, North A merican Fauna,no. 31, Biol. Surv., U. S. Dept. Agr., pp. 31-33, 1910.