y (_T. a. yucatanense_).
34. Mammalia: Jaguar, Puma.
35. Mammalia: Jaguar, Coyote, Bear.
36, 37. Mammalia: Dog (_Canis_).
38. Mammalia: Leaf-nosed Bat (_Vampyrus_ or _Phyllostomus_).
39. Mammalia: Monkey (_Cebus_) and miscellaneous.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN TEXT

FIG.
1. Top of Altar T, Copan (Mandslay,[TN-2] I. Pl. 95) 320

2. Pottery whistle from Uloa Valley, Honduras, representing a
vulture. Peabody Museum Memoirs. I. No. 4, fig. 15 332

3. }
4. } Glyphs of Maya month _Moan_ showing moan-bird
5. } characteristics 339
6. }

7. Quetzal from the bas-relief of the Temple of the Cross,
Palenque 341

8. }
9. } Glyphs for Maya month _Kankin_ (Ribs of dogs) 364
10. }

11. }
12. }
13. } Glyphs for Maya month _Zotz_ (Bats) 365
14. }

15. Pottery whistle from Uloa Valley, Honduras (Peabody Museum
Memoirs, I, No. 4, fig. 14), representing an ape 366

16. }
17. }
18. } Glyphs for Maya day _Chuen_ 367
19. }

20. }
21. }
22. } Glyphs of God C. (Schellhas, Peabody Museum Papers, IV, 368
23. } No. 1)
24. }

INTRODUCTION.

The various peoples inhabiting Mexico and Central America in early
pre-Columbian times were accustomed to record various events, especially
in regard to their calendar and the religious ceremonials in relation to
it, on long strips of skin or bark. These were usually painted on both
sides and folded together like a screen. Several of these codices are
still in existence from the Nahua and Zapotec areas in Mexico, but only
three have come down to us from the Maya region which is included in the
peninsula of Yucatan, the states of Tabasco and Chiapas in Mexico, and
portions of Guatemala and Honduras. These three manuscripts are the
Dresden Codex in the Royal Public Library at Dresden, the
Tro-Cortesianus (formerly considered to have been two, the Troano and
the Cortesianus) in the National Archaeological Museum at Madrid, and
the Peresianus in the National Library at Paris. These pre-Columbian
manuscripts have all been published in facsimile. (See bibliography.)

These remains of a once extensive literature show evidence not only of
considerable intellectu