CONTENTS. Xm 



RODENTIA. 



CHAPTER I. 



RATS AND MICE. 



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



Rat (638)— The Brown Rat (688)— The Mouse (689)— The Harvest Mouse (689)— 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 n. 



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 in. 



THE SQUIRRELS AND MARMOTS. 



The Family Sciuridse (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 Haploodontida; (718)— The Family Chinchillida: (718)— The Chinchillas and 

 Visachas (719) — The Octodontid-.e (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 Leporidae (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 



