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said, has the arms crossed upon the breast, in the attitude of 
prayer, the erown upon the head has three prominences, and 
the hatchet has three marks upon its head, and the beautiful 
shell ornament from the same mound has the symbol of the 
Trinity, both upon the anterior and posterior surfaces. 
A circular shell ornament, with a well formed crown in 
the centre, which had been filled with some kind of red pig- 
ment, was discovered by Colonel Putnam in a stone grave 
near Nashville. 
These religious relics are of a great interest in their bear- 
ing upon the probable date of the mounds and temples and 
graves in which they are found, and in the proof which they 
afford, that the inhabitants of America, have, at various 
times, come in contact with the civilization and religions of 
Europe, even before the recognized era of the discovery and 
exploration of the American continent. 
In several of the crania, the os-Incae, characteristic of the 
Peruvian skulls, was observed. That this ancient race were 
descended from the Toltecs, and were probably a branch of 
the Natchez, is rendered probable, not only from the confor- 
mation of the crania, but also from the history of this once 
powerful, but now extinct nation of the Natchez. 

THE FAUNA OF MONTANA TERRITORY. 
BY J. G. COOPER, M. D. 

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Car Bren (Mimus Carolinensis). I was surprised to find 
the Cat Bird common entirely across the Rocky Mountains to 
Ceur d'Aleie Mission, almost on the border of the Columbia 
Plains. It has the usual cry and habits of the species. I 
thought I saw Oreoscoptes montanus along the Hell Gate 
River, but may have been mistaken. 
Rock Wren (Salpinctes obsoletus). I observed this bird 
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