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to present their backs & were instantly lost to sight. Then they would quietly steal away, 100 yds or so & one would be surprised to see his game suddenly begin zig-zagging among the rocks at a distance from where he supposed he had marked it down. This is a curious case of directive & protective coloration in the same animal.

Xochicalco is on a hill rising on the slope & overlooking the low country to the S., E., & West. Near it I passed through an indian village whose inhabitants are undoubtedly the descendants of the builders of the temple on the hill. They now occupy grass thatched huts with curious clay storehouses for corn, built like