X CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER IX. 



THE VEGETABLE PRODUCTIONS OF THE CORDILLERAS. 

 Chincbona or Peruvian bark — Coca 36G 



CHAPTER X. 



HUMMING-BIRDS (TROCHILID^) OF THE CORDILLERAS AND WESTERN COAST. 



Sword-bill humming-bird — Copper-bellied puff -leg — AVhite-booted racket-tail — Columbian 

 thorn-bill — Black warrior — The sickle-bill — Mars' sun-angel — Heliangelus Clarissas — 

 Snow-cap humming-bird — Spangled coquette — Train-bearer (leobia amaryllis) — Hill star 

 — The sappho comet — The phaon comet — Blue-tailed sylph 37G 



CHAPTER XI. 



MAMMALIA. 



The savage inhabitants of the Amazonian Valley — The puma — The jaguar — ant-eaters — Myrmc- 

 cophaga tamandua — Little ant-eater — The sloth— The tapir — The peccary — Hydrochferus 

 capybara — Agouti dasyprocta — The paca (crelogenys) — The armadillo — The opossum — 

 The crab-eating opossum — Marian's opossum — Yapock opossum — Bats 391 



CHAPTER XII. 



QUADRUMANA. 



Monkeys — Spider-monkeys — The chemeck — Macaco barrigudo — The uakari — Alouattes, or 

 howlers — The cuxio (bearded saki) — The cacajao — Marmosets, or midas monkeys — Midas 

 ursulus — Midas leoninas, or Jacchus Eosalia — Midas argentatus — Sai capicinus — Horned 

 capucin — The common capucin — Parauacu — Pithecia hirsuta — Pithecia albicans — Saimiri 

 - — Callithrix — Teetee — Collared teetee — Night apes, or douroucouli 441 



CHAPTER XIII. 



BIRDS. 



Humming-birds — Topaz humming-bird — Ara humming-bird — The racket-tail humming-bird 

 — The cayenne fairy — Cotingas — The campanero, or bell-bird — The umbrella, or fife-bird 

 — The cock of the rocks — Golden-winged manakin — Goatsuckers — Caciques — Toucans — 

 The realejo, or organ-bird- The curassow — Macaws — Parrots — Anaca parrot — Marianna 

 parrot — Trogons — The resplendent trogon — Jacamars — The jacana — Frigate-bird pelicans 

 — The horned screamer — Vultures — The black vulture— The turkey-buzzard 468 



CHAPTER XIV. 



REPTILES. 



Alligators — The iguana — Geckos — The anaconda — The boa — The spotted boa — The ringed 

 boa — The rattlesnake— The fer de lance — The bushmaster — Labarri, or Elaps lemniscatus 

 —Whip snakes — The green snake — Frogs and toads— The Surinam toad — Tortoises — The 

 Cheleys matamata 507 



CHAPTER XV. 



WONDERS OF INSECT LIFE. 

 Termites, or white ants— Sauba ants — The amphisbajna — Ecitons — Robber ecitons — Blind 



