1887.] 377 [Cope_ 



evidence in the Nahuatl vocabulary of the influence of any ter- 

 tiiim quid. We may positively exclude the supposition of a 

 third, wholly lost and unknown tongue, and unhesitatingly 

 identify the " Alaguilac " of Juarros, with the " Tlacabastleca " 

 of Palacio, and both with the ordinary Nahuatl.* 



With this identification the last remaining problem in the 

 aboriginal linguistics of Guatemala is solved. We may now 

 confidentlj' say that there was not a tribe found anywhere on its 

 surface by the first explorers of whose linguistic affiliations we 

 are ignorant. Every one can be assigned to its proper ethno- 

 graphic group so far as this is practicable by a knowledge of its 

 dialect. 



As to the second query, whether this Nahuatl colony immi- 

 grated before or after the Conquest, we are without positive 

 evidence. But the letter of Palacio, written in 1576, from 

 observations extending over years previous to that date, indicates 

 distinctly that the language of Acasaguastlan had a recognized 

 and independent existence in his day, and, therefore, that the 

 people who spoke it had been found in place when the Spaniards 

 first mapped out the land. 



This colony of Nahuas, which had wandered into the upper 

 valley of the Motagua river, was probably an off-shoot from the 

 extensive settlements which their kindred possessed on the Pa- 

 cific slope in the present Department of Escuintla, some eighty 

 or ninety English miles distant. 



The Classification and Phylogeny of the Artiodactyla. By E. D. Cope. 



{Bead before the American Philosophical Society, October 7, 1S87.) 



This suborder is well defined, and embraces numerous forms, many of 

 which are living. Although it includes much variety of type, the differ- 

 ences shade into each other so that there is considerable difficulty in ex- 

 pressing the natural system in form. The usual division is into the Om- 

 nivora and Ruminantia, which are, in the language of Kowalevsljy, the 



* The language called the " Apay" mentioned by Palacio as spoken at Acasaguastlan 

 has been identified by Dr. Stoli as the Chorti {Ziir Ethnogmphie der Eep. Guatemala, 

 p. 106). 



PROC. AMER. PHIL09..S0C. XXIV. 126. 3v. PRINTED NOV. 29, 1887. 



