It will be seen from the detailed examination of the fauna shown in the codices that after all a comparatively small part of the animal life of the country occupied by the Maya speaking peoples is represented. The drawings in some cases are fairly accurate, so that there is little difficulty in determining the species intended by the artist. At other times, it is hazardous to state the exact species to which the animal belongs. It is only in a comparatively small number of cases, however, that there is any great doubt attached to the identification. It will be noted that the drawings of the Dresden manuscript are much more carefully and accurately done than those of the Tro-Cortesianus. A greater delicacy and a more minute regard for detail characterize the Dresden drawings in general. In the animals selected for reproduction by the Mayas, only those were taken which were used either in a purely religious significance for their mythological character (and here naturally there is to be noted an anthropomorphic tendency) or animals were chosen which were employed as offerings to the many different gods of the Maya pantheon. The religious character of the whole portrayal of animal life in the codices is clearly manifest, and it is this side of the subject which will come out more clearly as the manuscripts are better known. FOOTNOTES: [300-*] Quoted in Thomas, 1882, pp. 115, 116. [300-†] "En el mes de _Tzoz_ se aparejavan los señores de las colmenares para celebrar su fiesta en _Tzec_." [301-*] "En este mes (_Mol_) tornavan los colmenares a hazer otra fiesta como la que hizieron en _Tzec_, para que los dioses proveessen de flores a las avejas." [303-*] Strebel (1899, Pl. 11) gives several realistic reproductions of the centipede from pottery fragments. [309-*] Attention is also called to two whistles representing frogs in the _Memoirs of the Peabody Museum_, I, _No._ 4 (Gordon, 1898), Pl. 9, figs, i, j.