The village method is very unsatisfactory. Kroeber says substantially nothing on this score and Merriam, although he lists 19 villages for the North Fork Mono, gives no more than one or two or, at the most, half-a-dozen names for each of the other groups. Tribal distinctions are also very confusing. Kroeber in the Handbook mentions 6 Mono subtribes: North Fork group, Posgisa, Holkoma, Wobonuch, Waksachi, and Balwisha. Merriam subdivides to a much greater extent. His grouping may be expressed essentially as follows: 1. Pogesas equivalent to Kroeber's Posgisa 2. Nim synonymous with the North Fork subtribe 3. Kwetah included in Kroeber's Holkoma 4. Kokoheba included in Kroeber's Holkoma 5. Holkoma included in Kroeber's Holkoma 6. Towincheba included in Kroeber's Holkoma 7. Toinetche included in Kroeber's Holkoma 8. Tsooeawatah included in Kroeber's Holkoma 9. Emtimbitch classed by Kroeber as a Yokuts tribe 10. Woponuch equivalent to Kroeber's Wobonuch 11. Wuksatche equivalent to Kroeber's Waksachi 12. Padoosha equivalent to Kroeber's Balwisha Nos. 5 to 8 inclusive are consolidated by Merriam as smaller groups within a main group or subtribe called the Toohookmutch. Concerning these Merriam says: "Large tribe on King's River. On both sides but largest area on north side. Contains many rancheria bands." Using Merriam's nomenclature, the Nim are generally conceded to have been the largest single subtribe. For this we may take as a working base line the previous estimate of 440 persons and Merriam's list of 19 villages. Elsewhere Merriam mentions the names of the following: Toinetche 3 villages, Holkoma 4, Woponuch 9, Emtimbitch 2, Waksache 1, Kokoheba 1, and Toohookmutch 10. The total is 30. By direct proportion the inhabitants should have numbered 695 but this would leave five of Merriam's groups with no population at all. If we consider that the Toohookmutch complex plus the Kokoheba and Kwetah are the equivalent of Kroeber's Holkoma we find 18 villages, which implies 416 people. Merriam cites 9 villages or, at the same ratio, 208 persons for the Wobonuch. The total for these three of Kroeber's subtribes would then be 1,064. If we guess that the remaining groups contained 500 persons, the figure for the Mono in 1850 would reach the vicinity of 1,600.