CONTENTS. ix 



RODENTIA. 



CHAPTER I. 

 RATS AND MICE. 

 The Order Rodentia (687)— The Family Muridae (688)— Rats and Mice (688)— The Black 

 Rat (688)— The Brown Rat (688)— The Mouse (689)— The Harvest Mouse (68g)— The Barbary 

 Mouse (690) — The Hamster (690) — The Musk Rat (692) — The Water Rat (693) — The Field Mouse 

 (693) — Wilson's Meadow Mouse (694) — Le Conte's Mouse (691) — The Cotton Rat (692) — The 

 Lemming (695). 



CHAPTER II. 



MOLE RATS, POUCH RATS, AND BEAVERS. 

 The Mole Rat (696) — The Jerboa (697) — The Alactaga (697) — The Cape Leaping Hare (697) 

 — The Hudson Bay Jumping Mouse (698) — The Fat Dormouse (698) — The Common Dormouse 

 (699) — The Pouched Rats (699) — The Beavers (701) — The American Beaver (702) — The European 

 Beaver (704). 



CHAPTER III. 



THE SQUIRRELS AND MARMOTS. 

 The Family Sciuridae (707) — The European Squirrel (707) — The Javanese Squirrel (708) — 

 The Hare Squirrel (708) — The Black Squirrel (708) — The Gray Squirrel (708) — The Northern 

 Gray Squirrel (709) — The Red Squirrel (709) — The Long-haired Squirrel (710) — The Flying 

 Squirrel (710) — The American Flying Squirrel (711) — The Taguan (711) — The Chipmuck (712) — 

 The Leopard Marmot (713) — The Marmot (714) — The Babac (715) — The Woodchuck (715) — The 

 Prairie Dog (716). 



CHAPTER IV. 



THE SEWELLELS, PORCUPINES, AND CAVIES. 

 The Family Haploodontidae (7i8)^The Family Chinchillidae (718) — The Chinchillas and 

 Visachas (719) — The Octodontida; (720) — The Hutia Conga (720) — The Degu (721) — The Tuko- 

 tugo (722) — The Gundy (722) — The Coypu (723 — The Ground Pig (723) — The Canadian Porcu- 

 pine (724) — The Tufted-tailed Porcupines (726) — The Agouti (726) — The Sooty Paca (727) — The 

 Capybara (727) — The Guinea Pig (728) — The Mara (728) — The Pikas (729). 



CHAPTER V. 

 HARES AND RABBITS. 

 The Family Leporidse (730) — The American Hares (730) — The Polar Hare (730) — The North- 

 ern Hare (731) — The Wood Hare (731) — The Jackass Rabbit (731) — The African Hares (731) — 

 The Sand Hare (732) — The Common Hare (732) — The Alpine Hare (733) — The Rabbit (733) — 

 The Wild Rabbit (734)— The Domestic Rabbit (734). 



EDENTATA. 



CHAPTER I. 

 THE SLOTHS AND ARMADILLOS 



The Edentata (737)— The Sloths (737)— The Two-toed Sloth (738)— The Ai or Three-toed 

 Sloth (738)— The Spotted Sloth (739)— The Scaly Ant-eaters (739)— The Phatagin (739)— The 



