CONTENTS FOR MARCH 



Cover, Entrance to the Harbor, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 



Photographed from an elevation of 1400 feet, by Leo E. Miller 



Frontispiece, Drifting Clouds Among High Andean Peaks 156 



Photographed by Leo E. Miller 



A Search for Scytalopus Leo E. Miller 157 



A journeying through many hundreds of miles by the South American Expedition of the Amer- 

 ican Museum, and a final discovery of the small, elusive bird, Scytalopus, valuable to science 

 Illustrations from photographs by the Author 



Discoveries at the Aztec Euin Earl H. Morris 169 



A description of ancient Pueblo relics from New Mexico, from which can be constructed a 

 mosaic of the life and customs of the past 

 Illustrations from specimens in the American Museum 



The Invention and Spread of Agriculture in 



America Herbert J. Spixdex ISl 



The world's indebtedness to the American Indian for achievements in the domestication of 

 many of our common food plants of today 



Photographs from pottery in the American Museum. Decorative motives from Copan and Pa- 

 lenque showing Maya maize gods, and map of pottery distribution and agriculture, from draw- 

 ings by the Author 



Article followed by a note by Dr. Spinden on the greater use of Indian foods, a timely sugges- 

 tion on the extension of our food supply 



The Ruins of Tuloom, Yucatan Sylvaxus Griswold Morley 191 



The visit of the Carnegie Institution Central American Expedition to an important Maya city, 

 long rendered inaccessible by hostile Indians 



Illustrations from photographs and drawings by the Expedition, including detail in two colors 

 from mural paintings portraying Maya deities, the sun god and the god of rain and fertility, 

 from a temple at Tuloom 



The Eulachon— and its Kindred David Starr Jordax 205 



A delicious food fish from the Pacific Coast, which is making "a nick in the high cost of living 

 in the Northwest" 



A Fossil Deer from Argentina W. D. Matthew 207 



A contemporary of the ground sloths from the Pampean formation near Buenos Aires, with a 

 discussion of various types of deer in North and South America 



A Forgotten Naturalist Frederic A. Lucas 211 



Brief mention of the work of Titian Kamsay Peale 



IMuseum Notes 212 



M.\RY Cynthia Dickerson, Editor 



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