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The next specimen to be considered, shown in plate 103, A, is in 

 the Berlin Museum. It shows all the essential characteristic features 

 of the first group, the fillet on the head being somewhat more elab- 

 orately decorated than is the case in the majority of these objects. 

 Its nose is broken, but the chin is quite protuberant. The legs are 

 slim and bifurcated at the extremity, suggesting webbed feet, as in 

 the figure taken from the posterior end. 



The he^d of plate 103, B, represents that of a human being, while 

 C of the same plate is reptilian. The crest on the head of the latter 

 is unique in three-pointed idols. 



Mr. Theodoor de Booy, of the Heye Museum, collected in Santo 

 Domingo a three-pointed stone of the first type, which is difierent 

 from those yet described. This specimen is made of a brown stone 

 resembling fossil wood. Morphologically it belongs to the second 

 group of the first type, or those with a reptilian head, and is now in 

 the Heye Museum. The exceptional feature of this specimen is its 

 rounded base, which curves upward around the edge. There is a 

 circular depression in the middle of this base, situated about equal 

 distance from anterior and posterior ends. 



Another specimen belonging to the first type of thi-ee-pointed stone, 

 also collected by Mv. de Booy in Santo Domingo, differs from the 

 preceding in the position of the mouth, which instead of extending 

 longitudinally in the axis of the base is vertical to it. Perhaps the 

 nearest ajDproach to this is the form figured on plate xl of my Abo- 

 rigines of Porto Rico. The stone of which this specimen is made 

 has a whitish color, and its surface is quite rough. 



Three imperfectly described specimens (pi. 104, B, 0, D) of 

 three-pointed stones in the Madrid collection, all of the first type, 

 are worthy of notice. One of these {(') had the anterior ends cut 

 in the form of the head of a bird with engraved wings on the sides. 

 Figure B has a highly decorated fillet, engraved lines of which alter- 

 nate with three jilts, each surrounded by a ring. One of these pits is 

 situated on the median line, the other two laterally. 



Plate 104, (\ in the Madrid Museum, represents a zemi in the form 

 of a bird. When seen from above the bill appears to be upward. The 

 head is distinct from the body, but appears to be swollen just back 

 of the beak, the relative position of which to other organs is 

 unique, the mouth generally pointing forward and not upward as 

 is here the case. The apex of the conical projection is modified into 

 a knob tipped slightly forward. The posterior end of the idol 

 shows no indication of feet, legs, or other organs. This is one of 

 the most exceptional forms of known three-pointed idols and differs 

 radically from that of the other known bird forms. 



A most remarkable three-pointed stone from the Trocadero 

 Museum, shown in plate 105, .4, is unique in having a head 



