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Gannet ............ 2 



Living Portuguese Man-o'-tvar, Beached ..... 3 



Cabbage-palms and Palmettoes along the Florida Coast ... 5 



Pelicans ........... 7 



Royal Palms, Havana. Botanico Jardin de Universidad ... 8 



Live Needle Fish .......... 13 



Peak of Orizaba 15 



Street Scene in Vera Cruz . . . . . . . .17 



One of the Black Scavengers ........ 19 



Orizaba Mountain through the Clouds ...... 23 



The Peak of Ixtaccihuatl. The Sleeping Woman .... 27 



View from Esperanza 29 



Crater of Popocatepetl 30 



Cave Dwellers 33 



Musicians . .......... 36 



Guadalajara Ditch 41 



Desert Sparrow Hawk 43 



Cuernavaca House Finch ........ 47 



Seed-pods ........... 49 



Jalisco Pouched Bat ......... 59 



A Guadalajara Expressman ........ 65 



Guadalajara ........... 67 



The Flying Switch ......... 69 



Belted Kingfisher 71 



A Pintail Duck 73 



Green-winged Teal ......... 75 



American Egret 78 



Organ Cactus .......... 83 



Fossil Tooth of Imperial Mammoth in the Alkali Desert ... 87 



Green Heron ....... .... 90 



The Barranca of the Rio Santiago ....... 97 



Nests of Wasps and Sinaloa Wren 102 



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