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MAMMALIA

DOG (Canis)

1. Dog and crab, Tro-Cortesianus 88c. 2. Tro-Cortesianus 37b. 3. Tro-Cortesianus 66b. 4. Head, Nuttall 34. 5. Nuttall 72. 6. Head, Nuttall 20. 7. Probably a dog, Nuttall 3. 8. Aubin 9. 9. Glyph for day sign Oc. 10. Same. 11. Same. 12. Tro-Cortesianus 91d. 13. Glyph for Nahua day sign Itzcuintli, Aubin 9. 14. Tro-Cortesianus 27d.

PLATE 37

MAMMALIA

DOG (Canis)

1. Dog bearing firebrands, Dresden 40b. 2. Same, Dresden 39a. 3. Same, Dresden 36a. 4. Tro-Cortesianus 88a. 5. Dresden 21b. 6. Tro-Cortesianus 24c. 7. Dresden 13c. 8. Tro-Cortesianus 37a. 9. Dresden 30a. 10. Dresden 7a. 11. Glyph supposed to represent a dog's ribs, Dresden 13c. 12. Dresden 29a. 13. Head, Tro-Cortesianus 91d.

PLATE 38

MAMMALIA

LEAF-NOSED BAT (Vampyrus spectrum or Phyllostomus hastatus panamensis)

1. Glyph, Chichen Itza, Akat 'Cib (Maudslay, III, Pl. 19.)[TN-33] 2. Glyph, Copan (Maudslay, I, Pl. 8). 3. Bat god, drawn as glyph, Copan, Stela D (Maudslay, I, Pl. 48). 4. Glyph, Copan (Maudslay, I, Pl. 8). 5. Glyph, Palenque, Temple of the Inscriptions (Maudslay, IV, Pl. 60, gl. Q 1). 6. Glyph, Tikal (Maudslay III, Pl. 74, gl. 41). 7. Bat gad used as decoration on pottery, Chama (Dieseldorff, 1904).

PLATE 39

MAMMALIA

MONKEY AND MISCELLANEOUS

1. Capuchin monkey (Cebus capucinus), Nuttall 1. 2. Same, Nuttall 5. 3. Head of same, Nuttall 38. 4. Nondescript animal, possibly a combination of monkey and peccary, Tro-Cortesianus 88c. 5. Glyph, possibly representing a monkey, found in connection with fig. 4. 6. Glyph of head of monkey, Nuttall 1. 7. Head of long-nosed god, Tro-Cortesianus 30a. 8. Head of monkey, glyph for Nahua day sign, Oçomatli, Aubin 9. 9. Long-nosed god, Tro-Cortesianus 30b. 10. God with head-dress, Dresden 5c.

Transcriber's Note:

The following typographical errors were noted in the original text:

TN-1 279 "Yucatan Horned Ow" should read "Yucatan Horned Owl" TN-2 281 "Mandslay" should read "Maudslay" TN-3 284 "deRosny" should read "de Rosny" TN-4 299 "connnection" should read "connection" TN-5 299 "signifiance" should read "significance" TN-6 299 "lightening" should read "lightning" TN-7 340 "indicatd" should read "indicated" TN-8 344 "Kayae" should read "Kayab" TN-9 353 "(Dresden 44b, 45b, (Pl. 32, fig. 4)" Has an extra ( before Pl. TN-10 366 "C. hypoleucus Auct.)" should read "Auct.)." TN-11 Footnote 327-[+] "coasa" should read "cosas" TN-12 Footnote 349-* "for" should read "por" TN-13 371 "Españales" should read "Españoles" TN-14 371 "l'Améirque" should read "l'Amérique" TN-15 371 "Bibliothéque" should read "Bibliothèque" TN-16 372 "1895. republished" should read "1895. Republished" TN-17 372 "und Maya-Handschriften:" colon should be a semi-colon TN-18 Plate 2 caption "4, 6" should have a . following TN-19 Plate 8 Plate number was not printed on the page TN-20 Plate 13 caption "Pl. 82, gl. 0, 4" should read "O, 4" TN-21 Plate 15 caption "HERONS FRIGATE" should read "HERONS, FRIGATE" TN-22 Plate 15 caption "6. Heron" should have a . at the end TN-23 Plate 18 caption "8. Same as fig" should read "fig." TN-24 Plate 20 caption "flints, Nuttall" should end with a . TN-25 Plate 22 The word "Plate" was incompletely printed TN-26 Plate 23 "23" was missing the second digit TN-27 Plate 26 caption "Dresden 26c 27c," should have a , after 26c TN-28 Plate 28 caption "uexolot" should read "uexolotl" TN-29 Plate 29 caption "Dresden 61" was missing the . at the end TN-30 Plate 32 caption "Tro-Cortesianus 66a" was missing the . at the end TN-31 Plate 32 caption "Sela" should read "Stela" TN-32 Plate 34 "PLATE 34," should not end with a comma TN-33 Plate 38 "Pl. 19.)" should read "Pl. 19)."

The following words had inconsistent hyphenation:

Blow-fly / Blowfly cross-hatched / crosshatched pit-fall / pitfall

The following words had inconsistent spelling:

dechiffrement / déchiffrement Fégerváry-Mayer / Fejérváry-Mayer / Fejervary-Mayer Rélacion / Relacion rôle / role

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