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Geese, 67.

Ground-doves, 110.

Guarda-barrancas, 13, 119.

Humming-birds, 110.

Jays, blue and grey, 48, 110, 120.

Macaws (Ara macao), 147.

Mocking-birds or sensontes, 93, 106, 110, 203.

Mot-mots, 110, 121, 203.

Orioles (Icterus), see also Oropendula, 110, 120.

Oropendulas (Ostinops Montezumæ-Waglerii), 120, 147.

Owls, 121.

Parras, 216.

Parroquets, 110, 119.

Parrots, 81, 110, 118, 147.

Partridges, 251.

Pelicans, 4.

Pheasants, 251.

Pito-reales, 93.

Puhuyak, or Night-jar, 121.

Quetzal (Pharomacrus mociuno), 120.

Sensontes, see Mocking-birds, supra.

Spoonbills, see Chocolateras, 216.

Teal, ib.

Toucans (Rhamphastos carinatus), 120.

Turkeys, Peten (Meleagris ocellata), 178.

Whip-poor-will, 48, 121.

Woodpeckers, 110, 121.

Wrens, 110.

Zopilotes (Cathartes atratus), 13, 90, 111, 121.

Blackbirds (Quiscalus), 110, 121.

Black Christ, shrine of, at Esquipulas, festival of, and pilgrims to, 49, 50, 58.

Blancancaux, Mr., 179, 182.

Blockley, Mr., 149, 151.

Blue Mountains, 183.

Boats: Canoes, 57, 193, 236, 239, Cayueos, 239, Doreys, 188, Pit-pans, 186.

Boca del Cerro, 236.

Bogran, General, President of the Republic of Honduras, 128, 129.

Bonacca, landing of Columbus at, 193.

Bottle-brush flowers, 110.

Bowditch, Mr. Charles, 142.

Bows and arrows used by the Mayas, but never found in sculptures, 207, 211.

British Honduras, a journey into, 182, mural painting found in, 122.

———— Governor of, see Barlee.

———— Museum, sculptures presented to, 241.

Bromelias, 92.

Brown seed-necklaces worn by Indians, 236-7.

Brujeria (witchcraft), 49, 135.

Brujo, Indian name for wizard, 172.

Buildings, see Indian.

Burial-places, (see Indian), at Ixkun, 178.

Burnes, Mr., 107.


CABILDOS: of Atitlan, 60, of Belehú, 87, of Copan, 128.

Cacao, (see also Madre de Cacao), first seen by the Spaniards, 194, 251; wild, 217.

Cachapa, 115, 116.

Cachil, Cumbre de, 106.

Cachiquel Indians, (see Quiché Indians), Chronicles of, 61.

Cacique, an Indian, at the court of Charles V., 74.

Caciques of Bonacca, 193, of Sacapulas and Coban, 96-7.

Cacti, 112.

—— Nopal, 27.

—— Organ-pipe, 117.

Cajabon, track from, to Coban mapped, 157, Ermita en route to, 158, hammock bridge near, 159, the Lopez family at (see also Lopez), ib.; the Dutch Padre of, 160-2, the Convento at, ib., forest journey from, 163.

Calabash trees, 237.

Calceolarias, 76.

Calvario, the, at Coban, (ill.), 100.

Camalote, or high reeds, 182-3.

Campeche, 195, landing of Cordova at, and Maya temple of, ib., harbour of, 196, ruins near, and need of further exploration of, 252.

Cancer, Luis, Dominican missionary, his visit to Coban, 99.

Cancuen River, 167-8.

Canna-leaves, use of, 92.

Cannibalism attributed to Englishmen, 157.

Canoes at Santa Catarina, 57, 193, 236, 239.