The Living Animals of the World 



.Fiafir* 



Walking-fish, 620 



Weaver, Common, 625 

 Larger, 626 



Wels, 650 



Whitebait, 661 



Whiting, 641 



Pollack-, 642 



Wolf-fish, 630 



Wrasses, 6154-5 



Ballan, 6:54 

 Spotted, 634 

 Striped, 034 



Jointed l H i !/".: Insects, 

 tie. 



Wasps, Burrowing-, 705 

 Pine-boring, 704 

 Tree-, 703 

 Wood-, 703 

 Weevils, ">85 



Corn-, 686 

 Nut-, 686 

 Osier-, 686 

 Palm-, 686 

 Rice-, 680 

 Sugar-, 686 



. - / 

 Whelks, Common, 742 



,, Giant, 742 

 Winkle, 742 

 Worm, Ship-, 744 



frfiti trial* 



Yak, 212 



Domesticated, 2 

 Yapok, 377 



Zebras, Burchell's, 191 



Habits of, 193-4 

 Chapman's, 160a 

 Grevy's, 190 



Habits of, 192 

 Mountain-, 189 

 on Table Mountain, 



195 



Somali, viii (lutrod.) 

 Zubr, 213 



NOTE. 



TIIF. Publishers are glad to take this opportunity of offering their sincere thanks to the many naturalists who have 

 helped them to make this book as comprehensive as possible. In addition to the names of those mentioned in the 

 Introduction, valuable photographs and other help have been received during the progress of this work from 

 Sir Joseph Fayrer, Bart., F.E.S., The Lady Decies, Lady Alexander, Sir Harry Johnston, G.C.M.G., K.C.B., D.Sc., Miss 

 E. J. Beck, and the following gentlemen : Messrs. E. C. Atkinson, Harold W. Atkinson, M. E. F. Baird, B. H. Bentley, 

 J. H. Bonhote, A. H. P. Cruickshank, E. Connold, James B. Corr, J. Edwards, C. B. Hausburg, C. N. Martin, 

 H. Noble, Percy Leigh Pemberton, Norman B. Smith, H. G. F. Spurrell, Paul Thomas, and J. Turner-Turner. 



Thanks are also due to Mr. Percy Ashenden, of Cape Town ; Mr. Billington, of Queensland ; Professor 

 Bumpus, of New York ; Mr. Kobert D. Carson, of Philadelphia ; Mr. William Cross, of Liverpool ; Mr. Glenday, of 

 Cape Town ; Mr. W. T. Hornaday, of New York ; Mr. L. H. Joutel and Mr. N. Lazarnick, both of New York ; 

 Mr. H. V. Leckmann, of New York ; Mr. C. N. Mavroyeni, of Smyrna ; Dr. Robert T. Morris, of New York ; 

 Mr. Frans Mouwen, of Breda ; Mr. William Rau, of Philadelphia ; Mr. S. Sinclair, of Sydney ; Mr. D. Le Souef , of 

 Melbourne ; to the Dublin Zoological Society, to the Hearst Syndicate of New York, and to the New York 

 Zoological Society ; also to Mr. W. P. Dando, Mr. T. Fall, and other professional photographers, whose names are 

 acknowledged under their respective photographs. 



ERRATA. 



PAGE 46!). The photograph on this page, inadvertently attributed to an Australian Osprey, is of an Australian White-bellied 



Sea-eagle. 

 490. Mr. Saville-Kent writes : " The Black Cockatoo is notable for assembling in large flocks, from twenty to as 



many as fifty or sixty being commonly seen." 

 512. The photograph on this page, inadvertently attributed to the Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers, is of the Greater 



Spotted Woodpeckers. 

 594. The Hon. Walter Eothschild, Ph.D., F.Z.S., writes: "You elate that the African Cobra spits out its poison. 



The South African snake which spits out poison is the Ringhals Snake, and this is the only suake of whicli 



this is recorded with certainty." 



605, 606. For " Smooth Newt " read ' Warted or Crested Newt, with crest undeveloped." 

 627. For " Reel-gurnard " read " Red Gurnard." 

 660. For "Queensland Lung-fish" read " Barbelled Arapaima." 

 767, line 20. For " pouch-like " lead " peach-like." 



