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List of Illustrations
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| 68. | A quail (Cyrtonyx monuzuma). See p. 362. These birds were regularly offered up to the gods. Codex Zouche, p. 38. |
| 69. | A partial eclipse of the sun. Codex Vaticanus A,p.126 (Kingsborough). |
| 70. | The Moon. Codex Borgia, p.10. The ancient Mexicans saw in the moon not a man but a rabbit surrounded with water. |
| 70. | A Quaunxicalli or incense brazier. Codex Laud, p. 17. |
| 71. | Flowering plants. Codices Fejérváry-Mayer, p.29; and Borgia, p.14. |
| 76. | A fisherman. Codex Vaticanus B, p.32. |
| 77. | Cinteotl, the Maize God. Codex Fejérváry-Mayer, p.11 |
| 77. | Cacao tree {Teeobroma cacao). Codex Vaticanus A,p.5 (Kingsborough). |
| 78. | Maize (Zea mays). Codex Fejérváry-Mayer, p. 29. |
| 78. | Aloes (Agave atrovirens). Codices Vaticanus B, p.56; and Fejérváry-Mayer, p.27. |
| 79. | Lily (Zephyranthes). Lienzo di Tlaxcala, p. D. |
| 81. | Rabbit (Sylvilagus sp.). Codex Borgia, p.18. Oviedo (Purchas, p. 219) considered the Mexican rabbits as "liker Hares than Conies, yet less than Conies." |
| 82. | Humming-birds. Codices Laud, p.14 (Kingsborough); Borgia, p.36; and Bologna, p.10. See note to p.232. |
| 84. | Flowering plant. Codex Magliabecchiano, p.34. |
| 86. | Turkeys (Meleagris americana) adorned with the breast-brush of Ocellata. See p.363, and the Codices Vaticanus B,p.29; and Borgia, p.50. |
| 86. | Guava tree (Psidium guava). Lienzo di Tlaxcala, p.76. |
| 97. | Flowering plant with seed vessels that suggest Helecteres. Codex Telleriano Remensis, p.19. |
| 98. | I. Rattlesnake (Crotalus terrificus). Codex Vaticanus B,p.27. In addition to its forked tongue two others of a purely conventional nature issue from the creature's mouth to show that it is hissing. Its head and rattle have been embellished with plumes, and in its nose are two nose-jewels. |
| 98-99. | 2, 14, 15, 16, 17. Jaguars (Felis onca). Codices Vaticanus B,p.25; Zouche, pp. 24, 50; Borgia, p. 44; Laud, p. 22 (Kingsborough). "Terrible beasts," Oviedo writes (Purchas, pp. 206, 207), "in shape like unto a Tigre. Their bodies and their legs are full of black spots one neere unto another and divided with a circumference or fringe of reddish colour, showing, as it were, a faire work and correspondent picture." |
| 98. | 3, 4. Tortoises. Codices Zouche, p.43, and Bologna, p.16. |
| 98-99. | 5, 6, 18. Crocodiles. Codices Laud, p.14; Zouche, p.75; and Fejérváry-Mayer, p.4. The Laud crocodile is furnished with two nose-jewels and a headdress of feathers. |
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