x CONTENTS 



CHAPTER XVI 



RARE AND UNFAMILIAR ANIMALS 



PAGE 



White-Headed Saki— White-Thighed Guereza— Sloths— Bhutan Takin— 

 Domestic Horses — Prejevalski's Wild Horse — Bontebok — Blessbok — 

 Aard Wolf— Cape Ant Bear, or Aard Vark — Great Ant-Eater — Ratel, 

 or Honey Badger — Brazilian Tapir — Malayan Tapir — Walrus — 

 Viscacha — Paca — Agutis — Crab-Eating Dog — Black- Footed Cat — 

 Civet Cat — Malaccan Civet, or Rasse — Pallas's Cat — Palm Civets — 

 Genets — Cape Hyrax, or Klip-Das — Common Polecat — Zorilla, or 

 Cape Polecat — Orkney Vole — Gerbils — Crab-Eating Opossum . .285 



CHAPTER XVII 



GIANTS OF THE DEEP 



Greenland Whale, and Whales in General — Pigmy Whale — Grey Whale — 

 Humpback Whale — Fin-Whales, or Rorquals — Lesser Fin-Whale — 

 Eden's and Rudolphi's Fin-Whales — Common Fin-Whale, or Rorqual 

 — Sibbald's Fin-Whale — Sperm Whale — Bottlenose Whale — Sowerby's 

 Whale — Layard's Whale — Armux's Whale — Fresh-Water Dolphins — 

 Narwhal — White Whale, or Beluga — Common Porpoise — Indian 

 Porpoise, and Others — Killer, or Grampus— Common Dolphin . . 308 



CHAPTER XVIII 



MAMMALS OF THE AIR 



Chief Features of Bats — Kalong — Vampire Bat — Long-Eared Bat — 



Pipistrelle . 328 



CHAPTER XIX 



ANIMALS OF LONG AGO 



The Story of the Earth — The Four Great Epochs — Creatures of the Past 

 — Plesiosaurs — Teleosaurus — Pterodactyle — Deinosaurs — Stegosaurus 

 — Brontosaurus — Other Deinosaurs — The First Birds — Dodo — Moa 

 — The Age of Mammals — Pakeotherium — Animals of Eocene Days 

 — Brontops — Evolution of the Horse — Sabre-Toothed Tiger — Giant 

 Sloth, or Megatherium — Mylodon — Scelidotherium — Armadillos — 

 Ancestors of the Elephant — Mastodon — Mammoth — Conclusion . 339 



