LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. XV 



THE l'L'MA OR AMERICAN LION, 1!Y FREDERICK. W. TRUE. 



Page. 



Plate XCIV. ThePuma. (From photograph of specimen presented to tin National Museum 



by Lewis Si lis. Esq.) 591 



ANIMALS RECENTLY KXTINCT OR THREATENED WITH EXTERMINATION, 1SY FREDERIC A. LUCAS. 



Plate XCV. The West Indian Seal i Monachua troplcalis) 014 



XCV1. The California Sea Elephant (Maerorhinus angustirostrig) 616 



XCVII. Head of Pacific Walrus {Odobaenus obesus) 6ig 



xrvni. The European Bison {Bison bonassus) G'M 



XCIX. Steller's Sea • low i ttytina gigas) (;^>:! 



C. The California Vulture i P*< itdogryphut californianus) Gi>:i 



CI. Tibiae of Solitaire, Dodo and 'I'm key 034 



('II. The Labrador Duck (Male) (Camptalaimus labradorius) c,?,r, 



CIII. The Great Auk ypennis) 038 



CIV. Galapagos and Mascareno Tortoises. (Photographs of specimens of animals 



in the National Zoological Park) 013 



CV. The Tile-fish (Lopholatilus chamtleonticeps). Reproduced In chromo lithog- 

 raphy from Plate 117 of the Atlas of Plates accompanying section I of the 



Quato Report upon the Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States. G47 



EXPLORATIONS IN NEWFOUNDLAND AM) LABRADOR IX 1887, BY FREDERIC A. LUCAS. 



Plate CVI. Sketch map of Funk Island 709 



OX A URONZE BUDDHA IN THE U. S. NATIONAL MUSEUM, BY CHAKLES DE KAY. 



(J VII. Bronze Buddba, Tokugawa period '. 709 



THE ETHNOLOGY AND ANTIQUITY OF EASTER ISLAND, 1SY WM. J. THOMSON, PAYMASTER, U. S. NAVY. 



FIGURE 1. Native houses built of bulrushes 4-4 



2. Kaitae, nearest descendant of the hist king of Easter Island 401 



3. Native women 402 



4a. Tattooing on a native woman. (Front view) 406 



46. Tattooing on a native woman. (Back view) 400 



5. View of stone hut in Orongo 47g 



6. Orongo 479 



7. Sculptured rocks near Orongo 431 



8. Sculptured figure often reproduced on rocks at Orongo 482 



9. Observation tower on bluff near Ajiahoirangaroa Point 485 



10. Unfinished image, crater of liana Roraka 492 



11. Image: Rana Roraka (front view) 493 



12. Imago : Rana Roraka (rear view) 493 



13. Buried image: crater of Rana Roraka 49} 



14. Image standing inside the crater of liana Roraka 494 



15. "Wry-neck" image, Rana Roraka 495 



16. The mutilated image " Hiara, " outside of crater of Rana Roraka 495 



17. Platform No. 3, imago restored 500 



18. Showing general plan of construction of platforms, also plan of house construction 



with details 592 



19. Sculptured rock : King's platform 5pj 



20. Platform 110, Vinapu 512 



ANIMALS RECENTLY EXTINCT OU THREATENED WITH EXTERMINATION, BY FREDERIC A. LUCAS. 



Figure 21. Steller's Sea Cow. Facsimile of figure on chart compiled by Lieutenant Waxell, nav- 

 igator of Bering's party 027 



22. Facsimile, of Piso's figure of the Dodo 032 



THR DEVELOPMENT OK THE AMERICAN RAIL AND TRACK, AS ILLUSTRATED BY THE COLLECTION IN I III 

 U. B. NATIONAL UUSEI H, BY J. ELFRETH WATKIN8. 



Figure 23. Jessop's patent edge rail (1789) G5? 



24. Edge rails, Lawson Colliery, New Castle-on-Tyne. (1797) <;:.7 



25. Wyatt's hexagonal rail, Bangor, N'oith Wales. (1802) 



28. Train rail, Surrey Railway. (1803) 



27. Woodhouse's patent concave rail for wagons 



2H. Tram rail, I'ennyilarren works to Glamorgan Canal, Wales. (I8ni) 



29. Tran) rail, designed by Charles LeCann, Llannelly, Wales. <if-ui) 



