LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



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 The Common European Mole-Rat (Spalax 



typhhis} 177 



Three-toed Sloth (Bradypus tridactylus] - 179 



The Koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) - - 180 

 The Long -snouted Phalanger (Tarsipes 



restrains] 181 



The Wombat (Phascolomys wombat] - 183 



Stomach of a Crane - - - - 184 



The Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) - - 1 88 

 Great Black Cockatoo (Microglossus ater- 



rimus] 189 



The Kea Parrot (Nestor notabilis] - - 190 

 West Indian Ring-tailed Iguana (Cyclura 



carinatd) - - - - - 193 



Tadpoles 194 



Single Rows of Teeth from Radulae of 



Plant-eating Sea-Snails ... 196 

 A Limpet (Patella vulgata] leaving its Scar 



at Ebb-tide - 197 



Land-Snails and Slugs . . . 200 

 Hinder-end of a Saw-Fly (after Lacaze- 



Duthiers) 204 



Rose Gail-Fly (Rhodites roste)a.nd Bedeguars 204 



Honey- Ant (Myrmecocystus Mexicanus] - 207 

 A Leaf-cutting Ant (CEcodoma) carrying a 



piece of Leaf (after Poulton) - - 208 

 A Bug which mimics a Leaf-cutting Ant 



and its Burden (after Poulton) - - 208 



The Sacred Scarab (Scarabtzus sacer) 

 Nut-Weevil (Balaninus nucum} 

 Termites or White Ants - 

 Heads of Butterflies 

 Jaws of a Millipede (after Koch) 



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- 211 



- 212 



- 214 



- 218 



Robber - or Cocoa - nut - Crab (Birgus 



latro) 221 



Wheat- Eelworm (Tylenchus scandens) - 222 



Palm-Cat (Paradoxurus typus) - - 227 



Sloth-Bear ( Ursus labiatus] - - - 228 



Proboscis- Bear or Coati (Nasua socialis] - 229 

 Sow and Young of Wild Boar (Sus 



scrofa] 231 



Lower Jaw of Pig (Sus scrofa), showing 



Teeth 232 



Collared Peccary (Dicotyles torquatus) - 233 



Rook (Corvus frugilegus} - - - 236 



Brent Geese (Bernicla brentd) - - - 238 



Corncrake ( Crex pratensis) ... 240 



Crowned Crane (Balearica pavonind) - 241 

 Skull of Hornbill (Buceros galeatus], in 



section 242 



Lancelet (Amphioxus lanceolatzts], feeding 245 

 Scrobicularia, with siphons and foot pro- 

 truded ------- 249 



House-Fly (Musca domesticd] - - - 252 



Common Crayfish (Astacus fluviatilis} - 253 



Ship Barnacles (Lepas anatiferd) - - 254 



