ADVERTISEMENT. 



This work is the fifteeenth of a series of papers intended to illustrate 

 tlie collections of Natural History and Ethnology belonging to the 

 United States, and constituting the National Museum, of which the 

 Smithsonian Institution was jjlaced in charge by the act of Congress of 

 August 10, 1846. 



It has been prepared at the request of the Institution, and printed by 

 authority of the honorable Secretary of the Interior. 



SPENCER P. BAIRD, 

 Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. 

 Smithsoniai^ Institution, 



Washington, April 15, 1879. 



