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Mexican Motmot. The Pendulum on the Swing { page 100) Frontispiece 



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



Living Portuguese Man-o^-war, Beached ..... 3 



Cahhage-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 Haiok ......... 43 



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



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



Jalisco Pouched Rat ......... 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 



