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the Crocodile and Python.— Habits of the Orang. — Wallace's Young Pet Orang.— The 

 Gibbons. — Monkeys of the Old and New Worlds. — The Semnopitheci. — The Proboscis 

 Monkey.— The Sacred Ape of the Hindus. — The Cercopitheci. — The Magots. — The Cyno- 

 cephali, or Baboons. — The Maimon. — The Great Baboon of Senegal. — The Derryas. — The 

 Loris. — Monkeys of the New World. — Monkeys Distinguished by their Tails and Teeth. — 

 The Wourali Poison. — The Indian Blow Pipe. — Mildness of American Monkeys.— The 

 Howling Monkeys. — The Spider-Monkeys. — The Fox-tail Monkeys.— The Saimaris. — Noc- 

 turnal Monkeys. — The Domesticated Nocturnals. — The Squirrel-Monkey, Page 669 



CHAPTER XIV. 



TROPICAL BEASTS AND BIRDS OF PREY. 



Variety of Carnivorous Creatures. — Birds of Prey : The Condor. — His Marvelous Flight. — His 

 Cowardice. — Modes of Capturing them. — Tlie Turkey-Buzzard, or Carrion Vulture. — The 

 King of the Vultures. — The Urubu. — Capable of Domestication. — The Harpy Eagle. — 

 The Sociable Vulture. — The Bacha. — The Fishing Eagle. — The Musical Sparrow-Hawk. — 

 The Secretary Eagle. — Beasts of Prey : Tlie Lion. — Fictitious Character ascribed to him. 

 — Mode of Seizing his Prey. — Lions and Giraffe. — Lion and Hottentot. — Andersson and a 

 Lion. — Livingstone's narrow Escape. — Lion-Hunting in the Atlas. — By the Bushmen. — Cap- 

 turing their Young. — Former and present Range of the Lion. — Lion and Rhinoceros. — 

 Livingstone's Estimate of the Lion. — The Tiger. — Their Ravages in Java. — Wide Range of 

 the Tiger. — Tiger-Hunting in India. — Escape from a Tiger. — Animals announcing the Ap- 

 proach of a Tiger. — Turtle-hunting Tigers. — The Panther and Leopard. — The Cheetah. — 

 The Hyena. — The Spotted and Brown Hyenas. — The Felidaeof New World. — The Jaguar. 

 — Hunting the Jaguar. — The Cougar, or Puma. — The Ocelot. — The Jaguarandi. — The 

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CHAPTER XV. 



THE ELEPHANT — EHINOCEROS — HIPPOPOTAMUS CAMEL — ZEBRA. 



The Great Tropical Pachydermati. — The Elephant: Difference between the tame and wild 

 Elephant. — His Instinctive Timidity. — Acuteness of His Senses. — His Sagacity in Climbing 

 Hills. — His wonderful Trunk. — His Tusks.— Elephant Herds. — The Rogue, or Solitary Ele- 

 phant. — The Asiatic and African Species. — The African Elephant tamed in Ancient Times. 

 — Present Range of the African Elephant. — Native Modes of Hunting the African Elephant. 

 — The Elephant and the Rifle. — Perils of Elephant-Hunters.— Elephant-Hunting in Abyssinia. 

 —The Asiatic Elephant.— Elephant-Hunting in Ceylon.— The Panickeas, or Native Elephant- 

 Hunters.— Elephantine Head- Work.— Obstinate Brutes.— T/ie Rhinoceros: Range and Char- 

 acter of the Rhinoceros.— Two Species, the Black and the White.— Size of the Rhinoceros.— 

 Acuteness of its Senses.— Its winged Attendant. — Its parental Affection. — Its nocturnal 

 Habits.— Modes of Hunting the Rhinoceros.— The One-Horned or Indian Rhinoceros.— The 

 Two-Horned Rhinoceros of the Malay Archipelago. — Rhinoceros-Paths in Java.— TAe Hip- 

 popotamus: Is the Hippopotamus the Behemoth of Job ?— Habits of the Hippopotamus.— 

 Its uncouth Aspect.-^Rogue Hippopotami.— Intelligence of the Hippopotamus.— Uses of its 

 Skin and Teeth.— Mode of Killing the Hippopotamus.— r/;e Camel: Its Adaptation to the 

 Tropical Sand -Wastes.— Its Physical Organization adapted to its Mode of Life.— Its Foot 

 and its Stomach.— Its Desert Home.— The Camel and the Arab.— The Two-Humped and 

 One-Humped Camels.— The Camel an immemorial Serf.— Its Aspect and Temper.— The 

 Giraffe: Beauty of the Giraffe.— Its Means of Defense.— Its special Organization.— The 

 Lion and the Giraffe. — Tlie Giraffe known to the Ancients. — Zebra and Qnaggas: Their 

 Abundance in Southern Africa.— Distinction Between the Quagga and the Zebra.— Capacity 

 for Domestication.— Their Union for Defense.— The Gnu, the Quagga, and the Zebra.— The 

 Zebra the Tiger-Horse of the Ancients.— The African Boar.- The Malayan Babirusa.— 

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