ADVERTISEMENT. 



This work is the second of a series of papers iutencled to illustrate the 

 collections of Natural History and Ethnology belongiug to the United 

 States and constituting the National Museum, of which the Smithsonian 

 Institution was placed in charge by the act of Congress of August 10, 

 1S4G. 



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

 authority of the honorable Secretary of the Interior. 



JOSEPH HENEY, 

 Secretary Smithsonian Institution. 

 Smithsonian Institution, 



Washington^ November , 1875. 



