ILLUSTRATIONS 



Overpowering Curiosity of a Mountain Sheep .... Frontispiece 



Christmas at the Primates' House Facing page 42 



The Trap-Door Spider's Door and Burrow . . . 



Hanging Nest of the Baltimore Oriole 



Great Hanging Nests of the Crested Cacique . . . 



"Rajah," the Actor Orang-Utan 



Thumb-Print of an Orang-Utan 



The Lever That Our Orang-Utan Invented Page 



Portrait of a High-Caste Chimpanzee . i 



The Gorilla With the Wonderful Mind .... 



Tame Elephants Assisting in Tying a Wild Captive . 



Wild Bears Quickly Recognize Protection .... 



Alaskan Brown Bear, "Ivan," Begging for Food . 



The Mystery of Death 



The Steady-Nerved and Courageous Mountain Goat 



Fortress of an Arizona Pack-Rat Page 164 



Wild Chipmunks Respond to Man's Protection . . Facing page 166 



An Opossum Feigning Death " 166 



Migration of the Golden Plover. (Map) Page 172 



Remarkable Village Nests of the Sociable Weaver Bird Facing page 182 



Spotted Bower-Bird, at Work on Its Unfinished Bower " 184 



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