THE INDEX 



215 



harvestman, 96 ff. 



scorpions, 89 flf. 

 Spike ladder, 38 ff. 

 Spinning ants, 64 

 Squirrel, 169 

 Stilt palm, 45, 68 



Tapirs, 162, 164, 175 f. 



attacked by ticks, loi 

 Tarantulas, 92 ff . 



nest of, 93 



bite of, 96 

 Tarantula hawk, 93 ff. 

 Teachers, suggestions to, 205ff. 

 Temperature : 



in Ancon, 20 



in the jungle, 52 

 Termites, 68 fif . 



ant enemies of, 85 ff. 



destructive habits of, 78 ff. 



enemies of, 75, 81, 85 



food of, 76 ff . 



injuries done by, 78 ff. 



kinds, 74, 83, 85 



mound nests of , 83 



nests of, 68, 70, 83 



runways or road building, 

 70 f. 



soldiers, 73 



useful work of, 81, 83 



wood- digesters, or Protozoa, 



77 

 works, 73 



Ticks, 5. 99 ff- 



removal of, 100 

 "Tigre," 164 



Tinamou, 144 



"Torkeys," 150 



Toucans, 156 ff. 



Tree viper, 108 ff. 



Trees, size of, 38 



Turkeys, 150 



Turtle attacked by ticks, loi 



Verrill, A. Hyatt, 196 

 Viper, 108 ff. 

 Vultures, 138 f., 142 f. 



Wasp. See Tarantula hawk 



Water, necessity for boiling, 29 



Water vine, 48 



Wheeler, William Morton, 195 



Whippoorwill, 144 f. 



White ants. See Termites. 



Wild fig, 47 f . 



Wild pig, or peccary, 164, i66f. 



Wood, destroyed by termites, 



78 ff. 

 Wood, Eric, 196 

 Woodpecker, 142 

 Worms, early form of, 103 



Yaguarundi, i67f. 



Yellow fever: 



how driven from Canal 



Zone, 185 ff. 

 in Canal Zone, I79 ff- 

 in days of Spanish explorers, 



5 



in Havana, 182, 183 

 successfully treated by 

 Americans, 9 



