CONTENTS FOR NOVEMBER 



Cover, Promenade of Penguins on a Falkland P)eacli 



Photograplied by :Mr. Rollo H. Beck 



Frontispiece, Molting Pock Hopper, Falkland Islands 428 



Photographed by Mr. Rollo H. Beck 



Bird Photographing on the Falkland Islands PoLLO H. Beck 429 



Incidents of a South American expedition conducted by the Author, through which many rare 

 specimens, photographs, and facts of habit and life history have been added to the world's 

 knowledge of birds 

 Copyrighted illustrations from photograjJlis by the Author 



Bird Life in the Falklands Pollo H. Beck 445 



Reproductions in duotone from photographs taken during a summer in the Falklands with the 

 Brewster-Sanford Expedition 



Explorations in New ]\[exieo Earl H. Morris 461 



Three superimposed periods of civilization disclosed by excavations in ancient villages and 

 burial mounds in the La Plata Valley 



Through the Navaho Pegion Howard McCor^mick 473 



A trip to the Canon de Chelly, Arizona, where sketches and materials were obtained for a 

 Navaho group in the American Museum 

 Illustrations from photographs by the Author 



Alligators I Have Known H. H. Broiley 481 



Notes on alligator collecting in North Carolina 

 Illustrations from photographs by the Author 



Giraffe and Sea Horse in Ancient Art Charles R. Eastmax 489 



Chinese and Egjptian decorative paintings of very early date 



The New Xatnral History— Ecology Charles C. Adams 491 



Age-Societies of the Plains Indians Pobert H. Lowie 495 



a study of the organizations among primitive V)eoples corresponding to lodges or clubs in 

 modern society 



Two Fur Seal Prohlems and Their Solution. . . .George Archibald Clark 497 



Need of reliable data concerning the fur seal herd on Pribilof Islands in Bering Sea, where 

 the United States Government has been breeding seals for fifty years 



Museum Notes 500 



With reproduction from a photograph of the Apache Indian Life Group recently completed and 

 put on exhibition in the American Museum 



Mary Cynthia Dickerson, Editor 



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