LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



COLORED PLATES AND HALF-TONES 



Bighorn or Mountain Sheep (Ovis cervina) . . Frontispiece 



PACING PACS 



'Possum Hiding in Palmetto, where he has been chased by 



a dog ( Didelphis virginiana) 

 A Scared 'Possum 



'Possum Climbing 



'Possum Looking Out of Nest 



A New Jersey 'Possum (Didelphis virginiana) 



A Florida 'Possum 



Opossum (Didelphis virginiana) Showing Young at the 

 Mouth of the Pouch 



Six-banded Armadillo (Dasypus sexcinctus) 

 Manatees Under Water ( Trichechus latirostris) . 

 Collared Peccary (Tayassu tayassu) . 

 Bull Elk or Stag (Cervus canadensis) 

 An Elk (Cervus canadensis) Getting His Antlers 

 The Rapid Growth of an Elk's Antlers 

 Elk Stag and Herd (Cervus canadensis) 

 A Startled Doe; she hears a whistle across the creek 

 White-tail Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) . 

 Virginia Deer in the Maine Woods at Night 

 Deer, in Moose Creek, Idaho .... 

 Western White-tail, or Virginia Deer (Odocoileus virgin- 

 ianus macrourus) in the Bitter Root Valley, Montana 

 A Young White-tail Buck (Odocoileus virginianus) . 

 A Bunch of Mule-deer Does (Odocoileus hemionus) . 

 Young Bull Moose (A Ices amertcanusj . . . . 

 A Pair of Bull Moose (Alces atnericanus) . . . • 



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