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The people whose ornithology I have attempted to portray are a tribe of more than ordinary interest, whether judged from an ornithologist's point of view or otherwise. The Mokis inhabit a region of country in longitude 109°, lying just west of the New Mexico-Arizona boundary, northeastward from Little Colorado river, and 65 miles south of the Colorado. Their seven villages or pueblos are Oraibi, Shumopavi, Shipaulovi, Mashongnavi, Walpi, Sichumovi, and Hano or Tewa. Each is built on the lofty crest of a precipice of sandstone, and combines a town and fortress which is impregnable to any assault to be anticipated from aboriginal foes. Thus romantically situated are the seven Moki cities today, although they do not occupy the sites of the villages first seen by the Spaniards, who were the first Europeans whose feet pressed the soil of Arizona in the early part of the sixteenth century. The people were then peaceful, intelligent, and industrious; they raised good crops of corn, beans, and pumpkins, wore cotton cloth and dressed deerskins, and were in no respect materially different from their descendants of the present day. Aside from these olden records, the Mokis have a far more ancient history, written in monuments scattered over their present domain and probably as far southward as the Gila river. These monuments are the remains of single-house structures as well as towns, built of stone and adobe, many of them wonders of aboriginal architecture. Some of these structures are cliff or cave dwellings, whose builders were the immediate ancestors of the Mokis and Zuñis, as these In(391) 52 dians themselves assert; and indeed there is little ground for doubting this, although much mystery has been made to surround these ruined edifices, whose origin has been variously accredited to Aztecs and other races. Many human skeletons which I have exhumed from the burial cists of cliff-dwellings bear an almost exact resemblance to the form and stature of the Mokis, and there is a close correspondence between the implements and materials found buried in the caves and casas grandes of the extinct people and those now in use or still preserved as relics in the houses of the Mokis. All of these proofs declare that the Mokis were once a more numerous people than now, and that they have long been in possession of the country they today occupy. The Mokis are a thrifty race, devoted to agricultural pursuits and to raising sheep, goats, cattle, ponies, donkeys, hogs, and some turkeys and chickens. These and other occupations keep them employed at home during most of the year; but in autumn or winter they make frequent visits to the neighboring Indian tribes the Havasupais, Navahos, and Apaches, as well as the Zuñis and other Pueblo tribes. Before its abandonment, they visited Fort Verde at least once a year, the trip occupying six days, as they travel, riding ponies and packing burros. Sometimes they extend the journey forty miles for the purpose of trading at Prescott. They formerly made occasional pilgrimages across the parched desert country to the Pacific ocean, and returned laden with seashells and other products. The revision of the zoological vocabulary of the Moki language, of which the present paper forms the ornithological portion, was made with the aid of my venerable friend Ongwischey (Raven), who fully comprehended my motives and exerted himself to make the list of names as complete and accurate as possible. Ongwischey is an exceedingly intelligent Indian, with many commendable qualities; he is simple and truthful, speaks fairly good English, and hence proved invaluable. He also possesses an excellent knowledge of the fauna, having traveled extensively in Arizona and New Mexico, but he has never been a hunter, although his brother Näh'huh (Duck), chief or governor of one of their villages, is a Nimrod of the Moki tribe, having killed many mountain sheep, deer, antelope, and other large game; but the acme of the Moki hunter's aspirations was |