THE OKEUON NATURALIST. 



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MEXICAN HIEKOGl.YPHS. 



MEXICAN HIEROGLYPHS. 



It seems to be desirable to put on record 

 the pictures, seen and sketclied by tlie 

 writer, in certain cave dwellings in 

 Cliihuahua, Mexico. The pictures were 

 drawn in black, red, and white, on the 

 adobe walls of the rooms in one of the 

 largest of the cave dwellings near a mor- 

 mon settlement. The caves occured in a 

 conglome ate. On the floors were found 

 cornci>bs of small size, fragments of 

 pottery, and in one cave was unearthed a 

 mummy ot a man in sitting posture. 



It seems fair to conclude that the artist 

 or artists, authors of the pictures hers 

 reproduced, were more or less familiar 

 with (i) Horses, (-?) Roman Catholicism, 

 (3) Soldiery, (4) Cattle, (5) Petticoated 

 and corseted women, (6) Burros and the 

 packing of the same. 



To a practiced eye there may be still 

 more signitkan>.e, but I dare not 

 venture into the higher speculations of 



anthropology. 

 The drawings will speak for themselves. 

 FRANCIS E. LLOYD. 



Pacific University, 

 Forest Grove, Or. 



Mr. Guy Stryker writing from Eastern 

 Oregon, says; It seems as if Malheur lake is 

 the breeding place of all the water birds of 

 Oregon; among others observed bitterns, 

 avocets, snowy herons, etc. Killed my first 

 antelope yesterday, also sage cocks in plenty. 



June 7 I took a set of twelve Northwestern 

 Flicker eggs; one of them was very smaK and 

 had no yolk. — Riy Raley, Pendleton, Or. 



Joseph Mailliard, of San Geronimo, Gal., has 

 returned from a few weeks trip in Alaska, 

 brniging back several additions in skins and 

 eggs to his collection; one of .hem is sets of 

 the fork-tailed petrel. 



