Part 15

PLATE 22

AVES

YUCATAN HORNED OWL (Bubo virginianus mayensis)

1. Bologna 7. 2. As a head-dress, Tro-Cortesianus 95c. 3. Borgia 7. 4. On end of staff carried by warrior, Chichen Itza, Temple of the Tigers, Lower Chamber (Maudslay, III, Pl. 49). 5. Aubin 13. 6. Head highly conventionalized, Palenque, Temple of the Sun (Maudslay, IV, Pl. 88). 7. Screech-owl (chiquàtli), Aubin.

PLATE 23

AVES

YUCATAN SCREECH OWL or Moan-bird (Otus choliba thompsoni)

1. Dresden 7c. 2. Tro-Cortesianus 66a. 3. Dresden 11a. 4. As a head-dress, Tro-Cortesianus 94c. 5. As a head-dress, Dresden 18b. 6. Glyph associated with Moan-bird, Dresden 7c. 7. Same, Dresden 7c. 8. Dresden 10a. 9. Peresianus 10. 10. Peresianus 5. 11. Glyph representing head, Dresden 38c. 12. Same, Dresden 8b. 13. Same, Dresden 53b. 14. Same, Dresden 16c. 15. Glyph possibly representing Moan-bird, Dresden 38c. 16. Glyph of head, Dresden 53b. 17. Glyph associated with Moan-bird. 18. Tro-Cortesianus 73b. 19. As a head-dress, Dresden 16c. 20. As a head-dress, Tro-Cortesianus 95c. 21. Glyph associated with Moan-bird, Dresden 7c.

PLATE 24

AVES

COPPERY-TAILED TROGON or QUETZAL (Pharomacrus mocinno)

1. Head-dress with crest feathers shown as knobs, Dresden 7c. 2. Head-dress, Dresden 13b. 3. Same, Dresden 16c. 4. Tro-Cortesianus 100b. 5. Tro-Cortesianus 70a. 6. Head-dress, Tro-Cortesianus 94c. 7. Nuttall 33. 8. Conventionalized tail as a head ornament, Dresden 20c. 9. Vaticanus 3773, 17. 10. Glyph, Palenque, Temple of the Sun (Maudslay, IV, Pl. 89, gl. O, 9). 11. Trogon descending on a sacrifice, Bologna 8. 12. Tro-Cortesianus 36b. 13. Glyph, Copan (Maudslay, I, Pl. 111, gl. 54). 14. Glyph apparently representing a trogon's head, Dresden 20c. 15. Same, Dresden 9b. 16. Same, Dresden 3a. 17. Head, Nuttall 43. 18. Tro-Cortesianus 26c. 19. Figure with head ornament resembling a trogon glyph, Dresden 20c.

PLATE 25

AVES

BLUE MACAW (Ara militaris)

1. Figure with macaw head and holding firebrands, Dresden 40b. 2. Head-dress, Dresden 16c. 3. Tro-Cortesianus 12a. 4. Glyph, Copan, Stela 11 (Maudslay, I, Pl. 112, gl. 12). 5. Same, Copan, Stela B (Maudslay, I, Pl. 38). 6. Glyph used in connection with fig. 1. 7. Glyph. 8. Stone carving of upper mandible and head, Copan, Stela B (Maudslay, I, Pl. 37). 9. Head, probably of a turtle, month sign Kayab, Quirigua, Stela A (Maudslay, II, Pl. 7, gl. 14). 10. Head, probably of a macaw, Copan, Altar Q (Maudslay, I, Pl. 93). 11. Tro-Cortesianus 37b. 12. Head, probably of a macaw, Copan, Stela A (Maudslay, I, Pl. 30, gl. 19). 13. Tro-Cortesianus 94c.

PLATE 26

AVES

PARROTS, TURKEYS

1. Macaw as a head-dress, Tro-Cortesianus 26c. 2. Bird of sacrifice, doubtless an Ocellated Turkey (Agriocharis) Dresden 25c. (Compare also Dresden 26c[TN-27] 27c, 28c.) 3. Head-dress, probably a macaw, Copan, Altar Q (Maudslay, I, Pl. 92). 4. Possibly a parrot (Amazona), Nuttall 4. 5. Head-dress, head of a macaw, Tro-Cortesianus 89a. 6. Head-dress, possibly representing a parrot, Dresden 12b. 7. Possibly a parrot (Amazona), Nuttall 71. 8. Glyph representing a macaw's head, Tikal, Temple C (Maudslay, III, Pl. 78). 9. Parrot-like head-dress, Dresden 19a. 10. Possibly a macaw, Tro-Cortesianus 37b. 11. Parrot-like head-dress, Dresden 11b. 12. Bird of sacrifice, probably an Ocellated Turkey or a Chachalaca, Nuttall 22. 13. Parrot-like head-dress, Dresden 11a. 14. Head of Ocellated Turkey or a Chachalaca, Nuttall 5.

PLATE 27

AVES

MISCELLANEOUS

1. Bird of sacrifice, an Ocellated Turkey or a Chachalaca, Nuttall 2. 2. Same, Nuttall 16. 3. Same, Nuttall 19. 4. Same, Nuttall 1. 5. Woodpecker possibly Campephilus imperialis, Nuttall 74. 6. Same, Nuttall 71. 7. Possibly a Raven (Corvus corax sinuatus), Nuttall 48. 8. Parrot (cocho), Aubin 11. 9. Same, Aubin 13. 10. Turkey-cock (uexolot),[TN-28] Aubin 11. 11. Same, Aubin 13.

PLATE 28

VARIOUS ANIMALS

1. Earthenware vessel representing a tapir (Tapirella) with a necklace of Oliva shells (Seler, 1904b, p. 106, fig. 23). 2. Stone carving, possibly of a King Vulture (Sarcorhamphus papa), Copan, Altar T (Maudslay, I, Pl. 96). 3. Stone carving, possibly a lizard, Copan, Stela 6 (Maudslay I, Pl. 107). 4. Stone carving, probably a jaguar (Felis onca hernandezi), Copan, Stela 2 (Maudslay, I, Pl. 102). 5. Stone carving of a Black Vulture (Catharista urubu), Copan, Stela D (Maudslay, I, Pl. 48). 6. Lizard (?) attacked by two birds (?) perhaps vultures, Quirigua, Altar B (Maudslay, II, Pl. 15).

PLATE 29