FEWKES] BIRD FIGURES ON POTTERY 683 
Bearing in mind the picture of this bird, we pass to a second form 
(plate CXXXVIII, a), in which we can trace the same parts without 
difficulty. On a round head is placed a feathered headdress. The 
different parts of the outstretched wings are readily homologized even 
in details in the two figures. There are, for instance, two terminal 
wing feathers in each wing; the appendages to the shoulder exist in ~ 
both, and the lateral spurs, exteriorly and interiorly, are represented 
with slight modifications. 
Fic. 272—Man-eagle 
The body is ornamented in the same way in both figures. It is con- 
tinued posteriorly on each side into triangular extensions, and the 
same is true of its anterior, which in one figure has three curved 
lines, and in the other a simple crook. There are three tail-feathers in 
each figure. I believe there can be no doubt that both these designs 
represent the same idea, and that a mythologic bird was intended in 
each instance. 
The step in conventionalism from the last-mentioned figure of a bird 
to the next (plate CXLVII, a)is even greater than in the former. The head 
