7?6 



The Living Animals of the World 



Walking-fish, 629 



Weaver, Common, (125 

 Larger, 025 



Wels, 650 



Whitebait, GG1 



Whiting, G41 



Pollack-, 042 



Wolf -fish, 630 



Wrasses, 634-5 



Ballan, 634 

 Sotted, 634 

 Striped, 634 



,l<nnt<-il liiiin/i!n Insects, 

 etc. 



Wasps, Burrowing-, 705 

 Pine-boring, 704 

 Tree-, 703 

 Wood-, 703 

 Weevils, 'W5 



Corn-, 686 



Nut-, 686 



Osier-, 686 



J'alm-, 686 



Kice-, 680 



Sugar-, 086 



Shull-Jlsli, etc. 



Whelks, Common, 742 



Giant, 742 

 Winkle, 742 

 Worm, Ship-, 744 



in in iim In 



Yak, 212 



Domesticated, 214 

 Yapok, 377 



Zebras, Lurchell's, 191 



Habits of, 193-1 

 Chapman's, ICOa 

 Grevy's, 190 



Habits of, 192 

 Mountain-, 189 

 on Table Mountain, 



195 



,, Somali, viii (Introd.) 

 Zubr, 213 



NOTE. 



Tn E 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 J6seph Fayrer, Bart., F.R.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. Robert 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. 1 rans 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 469. The photograph on this page, inadvertently attributed to an Australian Osprsy, 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 Rothschild, Ph.D., F.Z.S., writes: "You state that the African Cobra spits out its poison. 



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



this is recorded with certainty." 



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

 637. For ''Reel-gurnard" read "Red Gurnard." 

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

 n 767, line 20. For " pouch-like " re.d " peach-like " 



Lttlcr t >resi printed by Hazell, Walton & Viney, Ld.. London and Ayltibury ; Colour-Plates by A. C. fowler, Moorfleldt, 



