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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1896. 



are in pale yellow and brown upon light-red ground color. The whistle 

 is inside the head of the parrot. Its two notes are bere given: 



In this specimen the fointest increase or strength of breath will change 

 the note from to E, without giving, however, any intermediate sound. 

 The result is a warbling, bird-like eftect.^ 



Specimen, Cat. No. 33258 (U.S.N.M.), from Peru, received from Mr. W. 

 W. Evans, is a double bottle of dark-brown color without painted decora- 

 tion. The mouth of the bottle is connected by a curved handle to the fig- 

 ure of a bird upon the opposite chamber. 

 The whistling apparatus is on theoutside 

 ofthe bird's head. Two notes areemitted, 

 as follows : 



Fig. 315. 



WHISTLING VASE, PAINTED WARE, ANIMAL 

 FiaURE, TWO CHAMBERS. 



Fig. 315 represents a double bottle of 

 painted ware. The ground color is pale 

 yellow and the decorations consist of 

 conventional designs in brown and red. 

 A figure ofan animal is united to the neck 

 ofthe bottle by a nearly straight handle. 

 The shape of this vessel differs from all 

 others, the chambers being more like a 

 modern iiask or canteen. Its one note is 

 here given : -^. 



i 



Peru. 



Cat. No. 3'Ji;5it, U.S.N.M. 



Specimen, Cat. No. 88210 (U.S.N.M.), 

 from Peru, received from Mr. W. W. 

 Evans, is adouble bottle of painted ware. 

 The ground color is light red, upon which are decorations in pale yellow 

 and purple. One half of the vessel represents a grotesque human figure 

 in a S(|uatting position. Part of the headdress is in the form of a bird, 

 and it contains the whistling mechanism. A curved handle projects from 

 the back of the head connecting with the neck of the bottle. The one 

 note emitted is quite weak : sva. 



In fig. 31() is shown a double bottle of painted ware. The decoration 

 consists of stripes of red upon a pale yellow ground. A narrow band 

 ornament in relief encircles the bottle proper. The connecting vessel 



1 A series of whistling vases (vases sifflants), identical with the one here described, 

 is given hy Wiener in "Pcrouet Bolivie," p. 628. 



