[IV-8] _Lord's Nat._, vol. ii., pp. 52-4.
[IV-11] _Schoolcraft's Arch._, vol. v., p. 215.
[IV-12] _Bartlett's Pers. Nar._, vol. ii., p. 222.
[IV-13] _Ten Broeck_, in _Schoolcraft's Arch._, vol. iv., p. 86.
[IV-15] _Villagutierre_, _Hist. Conq. Itza_, p. 43.
[IV-16] _Charlton_, in _Schoolcraft's Arch._, vol. v., p. 209.
[IV-17] _Whipple, Ewbank, and Turner's Rept._, pp. 39-40, in _Pac. R. R. Rept._, vol. iii.
[IV-18] _Oviedo_, _Hist. Gen._, tom. iv., pp. 54-5.
[IV-19] Swinburne, _Anactoria_, has found an allied idea worthy of his sublime verse:--
'Cast forth of heaven, with feet of awful gold, And plumeless wings that make the bright air blind, Lightning, with thunder for a hound behind, Hunting through fields unfurrowed and unsown--'
[IV-20] _Brinton's Myths_, p. 205. The Norse belief is akin to this:--
'The giant Hrsuelgur, At the end of heaven, Sits in an eagle's form; 'Tis said that from his wings The cold winds sweep Over all the nations.'
_Vafthrudvers maal_; Grenville Pigott's translation, in _Scandinavian Mythology_, p. 27.
Scott, _Pirate_, chap. v., in the 'Song of the Tempest,' which he translates from Norna's mouth, shows that the same idea is still found in the Shetland Islands:--
'Stern eagle of the far north-west, Thou that bearest in thy grasp the thunderbolt, Thou whose rushing pinions stir ocean to madness, ... Cease thou the waving of thy pinions, Let the ocean repose in her dark strength; Cease thou the flashing of thine eyes, Let the thunderbolt sleep in the armory of Odin.'
[IV-21] _Sahagun_, _Hist. Gen._, tom. i., lib. iii., p. 265; _Clavigero_, _Storia Ant. del Messico_, tom. ii., p. 5.
[IV-23] _Torquemada_, _Monarq. Ind._, tom. i., p. 713: 'The entire tribes of the Californian Indiania [sic] appear to have had a great devotion and veneration for the Condor or Yellow-headed Vulture.' _Taylor_, in _Cal. Farmer_, May 25th, 1860. 'Cathartes Californianus, the largest rapacious bird of North America.' _Baird's Birds of N. Am._, p. 5. 'This bird is an object of great veneration or worship among the Indian tribes of every portion of the state.' _Reid_, in _Los Angeles Star_.
[IV-25] _Torquemada_, _Monarq. Ind._, tom. ii., pp. 46-71; _Clavigero_, _Storia Ant. del Messico_, tom. ii., pp. 14-15; _Gama_, _Dos Piedras_, pt. ii., pp. 76-7.