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Report frogs in water and flatter frogs (toads) jumping on land.


Ignacio says that Indians here all use same language, but from different places, as Santa Clara and San Ildefonso, pronounce slightly different, as "white men from different places do".
Describe mockingbird by colors, and say it sings songs of other birds. When I said "mockingbird" he instantly recognized the name as one he had heard applied by whites.
Describe W yellowthroat by habit and song and recognize picture.
Dowell says that La. Tanager comes here in migration and that coons come up from the Rio Grande.
Hodge, of the Bureau of Ethnology, arrived late in the afternoon and in the evening we all had a conference about the form of our report and its publication. Retired at 10 p.m.

Rito de los Frijoles, N.M. Aug, 27, 1910. Saturday
Up at 5 a.m. and Robbins and I with Mrs. Goldsmith and one of her sons, started for