776 



The Living Animals of the World 



Walking-fish, 629 

 Weaver, Common, 625 



Larger, 62i> 

 Wels, 650 

 Whitebait, 661 

 Whiting, 641 



Pollack-, 642 

 Wolf-fish, 630 

 Wrasses, 634-5 



Ballan, 634 

 Spotted, 634 

 Striped, 634 



Jointrd Animals I Insects, 

 etc. 



Wasps, Burrowing-, 705 

 Pine-boring, 704 



Tree-, 703 



Wood-, 703 

 Weevils, 685 



Corn-, 686 



Nut-, 686 



Osier-, 686 



Palm-, 686 



Rice-, 686 



Sugar-, 686 



tH-n-flfth, etc. 



Whelks, Common, 742 



Giant, 742 

 Winkle, 742 

 Worm, Ship-, 744 



Yak, 212 



Domesticated, 214 

 Yapok, 377 



m at ft 



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 (Iiitrod.) 



Zubr, 213 



NOTE.' 



THE 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. r 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. Eobert 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 469. 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 state that the African Cobra spits out its poison. 



The South African snake whi< h spits out poison is the Ringhals Snake, and this is the only snake of which 



this is recorded with certainty." 



606, 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 " read " peach-like." 



