58 MEMOIRS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM 
4. Birds. 
In the clubs of this class, thus far observed by me in the collections from Las 
Guacas only parrots are represented. 
(a) (Pl. XXVIII, Fig. 1.) Parrot of gray stone. The beak is perforated with 
a circular hole. Height 6.7 cm., length 15.1 em. (Cat. No. 2433. 
(b) (Pl. XXVIII, Fig. 2.) Parrot of gray stone with large crest. Height 6.1 
em., length 14.7 em. (Cat. No. 323%.) 
(c) (Pl. XXVIII, Figs. 3-4.) Parrot of gray stone. Height 8 cm., length 17.3 
Cm (Cates NOn a3) 
(d) (Pl. XXVIII, Fig. 5.) Parrot of gray stone with unusually small beak. 
Apparently this specimen has had the beak and crest broken off, whereupon a 
diminutive beak was carved upon the specimen in an unusual position on the lower 
part of the head. Height 6.7 cm., length 14.3 em. (Cat. No. 2337.) 
(ec) (PL XXVIII, Fig. 6.) Parrot of brown, white-spotted stone. Behind the 
wings the body is encircled with a band with criss-cross markings. Below each 
wing there is a cross-mark. -Height 7.2 em., length 17 cm. (Cat. No. 4732.) 
(f) (Pl XXIX, Fig. 5.) Parrot of brown stone. ‘This object presumably owes 
its peculiar shape to some mishap. The broken head has been renewed and _pro- 
vided with a shortened beak and the object has been turned upside down, the two 
wings now serving as legs. Height 6.5 cm., length 10.3 em. (Nat. Mus. of Costa 
Rica, No. 8936.) 
5. Two-legged monsters. 
Only a few specimens of these strange creatures having two legs, large heads, 
and cone-shaped tails have been found. Like the parrot last described they pre- 
sumably owe their existence to mishaps. The beak of the winged birds having 
been broken off, the artist instead of abandoning the object, has transformed it into 
one of these beings by turning it upside down, using the wings as legs and sculptur- 
ing the features of a fantastic animal face on the flattened surface of the head. 
The legs of these creatures differ in nothing but the position from the bird-wings 
and even retain the feather marks. 
(a) (Pl. XXIX, Fig. 1.) Animal figure of gray stone, with highly conventional- 
ized head with strange features. Height 8.4 em., length 12.3 em. (Cat. No. 43%2.) 
(b) Pl. XXIX, Fig. 2.) Animal of gray stone with almost square head, broken. 
Height 5 em., length 9cem. (Cat. No. 33:32.) 
(c) Pl. XXIX, Fig. 3.) Animal of ieee white-spotted stone; head square ; 
face flat, with four circular drill marks for eyes and nostrils. Height 7.4 cm., 
length 11.5 cm. (Cat. No. 233.) 
