viii CONTEXTS. . 



or Virginian deer — Tlie antelope — The bighorn, or mountain sheep — The bison, commonly 

 called the buffalo in America 81 



CHAPTER VT. 



RODENTS. 

 The beaver — The musk-rat, or musquash — Prairie-dogs — The porcupine 128 



CHAPTER VII. 



CARNIVORA. 



The black bear — The grizzly bear — Wolves^Lynxes— The wolverene, or glutton — The rac- 

 coon — The agouara, or crab-eating raccoon — The ermine — The pine-marten — The otter — • 

 The skunk — The pekan, or wood-shock — The mink — Marsupials, or pouched animals: 

 The Virginian or common opossum 150 



CHAPTER VIII. 



THE FEATHERED TRIBES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



The bald or white-headed eagle — The wild turkey — The ocellated turkey — The canvas-back 

 duck — The summer duck — The pinnated grouse, or prairie hen — The ruffed grouse, or 

 American pheasant — Passenger-pigeons — Humming-birds — The cow-bird — The blue-bird 

 — The snow-bird — The Carolina parrot 189 



CHAPTER IX. 



REPTILES. 



Tortoises :— The lettered terrapin — The chicken tortoise — The salt-water terrapin — The box 

 tortoise — The mud tortoise — The alligator terrapin — The snapping turtle — Lizards: — 

 The six-lined taraguina — The glass snake — The anolis — The crowned tapayaxin — Snakes : 

 — The rattlesnake — The banded and military rattlesnakes — The corn snake — The thunder 

 snake — The chicken snake — -The milk or house snake — The black snake — The coach-whip 

 snake — Frogs: — The bull frog — The solitary frog — The savannah cricket frog — The 

 changeable tree frog — The spotted eft — The menopoma — The congo snake — The necturus 

 — The siren, or mud eel — Grasshoppers, or locusts 210 



MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA. 



CHAPTER I. 



MEXICO. 



Birds of Mexico: — The scarlet tanager — The anis, or savannah blackbird — Massina's trogon 

 — The Mexican trogon — The resplendent trogon — ReptUes : — The rhinophryne — The 

 axolotl 2o8 



CHAPTER II. 



CENTRALAMERICA. 



Honduras and the Mosquito Country — Fauna— The mahogany-tree — Humming-birds: — The 

 slender shear-tail — The rufus flime-bearer — Princess Helena's coquette — The sparkling- 

 tail humming-bird 253 



