XIV CONTEN'TS. 



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OKDiiR IV. — Grai-latores — Wadlsg Birds 351 



Meaning of the Scientific 'iY-rm 351 



The Apteryx— The Plover 352 



The Lapwing — Crane — Heron 353 



The Bittern— Its Booming — Its Haunts 354 



The Stork — Ibis — Woodcock 355 



Land and "Water Eails — Water-hen — Coot 356 



(>uuER V. — ^Natatores — SwnnnxG Birds 356 



Flamingo — Its Peculiarities 357 



Division of the Order into Five Families 358 



L Anatidce. — The Family of the Duck 358 



Wild Geese — The Bernicles and Brent Goose 358 



Wild Swans — Mute Swan — Black Swan — Eider Duck 359 



XL Coli/mbidte. — The Family of the Divers 360 



IIL ^/arf<s.— The Family of the Puffins— Penguins 361 



IV. FelecanidiC. — The Family of the Pelicans 361 



Solan Goose — Cormorant 361 



V. Z,aru/<i;.— The Family of the Gulls 362 



Terns or Sea Swallows 362 



Habits and Haimts of Sea-Gulls 363 



Petrels— The Stormy Petrel 364 



Value of F'etrels in some Localities 365 



Vast Multitudes off the Coast of Patagonia 366 



Birds now Extinct — The Dodo 366 



Its Figure — Unexpected Affinity to the Pigeons 367 



Gigantic Whigless Birds of New Zealand — Dinomis 367 



Hypothesis suggested by their Size and Number 368 



CLASS IV.— MAMMALIA- QUADKUPEDS, &c. 



Meaning of the term Mammalia — Circulation — Respiration 369 



Covering— Skeleton ^71 



AppendagfS of the Head— Horns ^'J^ 



Tusks — Whalebone 375 



Teeth Their Diversity in Number, Form, and Structure 376 



Dependence of one part of the Animal Frame on another 378 



Classification of Mammalia in Eleven Orders... 379 



GRriER I. — Marsupiat.\ — Pouched Animals 381 



Meaning of the Term — Animals included in the Order 381 



Geographical Distribution— Peculiarities connected with the 



Young •"82 



Number of Species — Diversity of Size and Structure 383 



Ornithorj'ncus — Kangaroos — Opossums 384 



