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Index and Glossary. 



BAD 



Badger, 104 

 Barbary ape, 119 

 Barbel, a river fish, 28 

 Basking shark, 25 

 Bats, 115 

 Bears, 104 

 Beavers, 108 

 Bee-eaters, 64 

 Bile, 9 

 Birds, 52 

 Bitterns, 71 

 Blackbird, 66 

 Blackcap, 67 

 Blennies, 31 

 Blind amphibians, 37 



fishes, 29 



rats, 109 



worms, 43 



Blood of amphibians, 36 



of fishes, 21 

 vertebrates, 9 



corpuscles of fishes, 22 

 of birds, 61 



vessels of birds, 60 

 of fish-gills, 20 



Blowing and blowholes of whales, 



99 



Boa, 8, 46 



Body of vertebrate animal, 2 

 Bones, formation of, 17 

 Bony pike of California (Lepidos- 



teus), 27 



Bony skull, 7, 17 

 Bottlenose whales, 101 

 Box fishes, 32 



Bradypoda, the sloth family, 88 

 Brain of cod, 19 



craniota, 19 



fishes, 19 



Branchial, pertaining to the gills. 



arteries of fishes, 21 

 Breathing, 10-35 

 Bullfinch, 67 

 Bullhead, 31 



Bunodonts, hoofed animals with tu- 



berculated teeth, 93 

 Bustard, 71 

 Buzzard, 69 



pADUCOUS gills, gills which 

 ^ fall off before the animals reach 



maturity. 

 Caecum, the first part of the large 



intestine. 

 Caecilians, worm-like amphibians, 37 



COB 



Calamoickihys, African reed fish, 27 



Callophis, snake, poison gland of, 48 



Camels, 96 



Canine teeth, the eye-tooth, the 

 foremost tooth in the maxillary 

 bone, when it is single-fanged, 

 and the corresponding tooth in 

 the lower jaw. 



Carapace, the upper shield of a tor- 

 toise, 49 



Camivora, flesh-eating mammals, 

 102 



Carp, 28 



Cannate birds, those with a keel on 

 the breast-bone, 63 



Carotid arteries, neck bloodvessels, 

 78 



Carpus, the bones of the wrist-joint. 



Cartilage bones, such as begin their 

 existence as masses of gristle, 17 



Cassowary, 62 



Catarrhine monkeys, old world mon- 

 keys with a narrow partition be- 

 tween the nostrils, 119 



Cats, 103 



Cave amphibians, 38 



Cave bear, 106 



Cavities in the vertebrate body, 2 



Cebus, South American monkeys, 

 118 



Cephalic, pertaining to the head. 



Cephalisation, subordination in func- 

 tion of limbs to the head, n 



Ceratodus, Australian fish, 34 



Cercopithecus, green monkeys, up 



Cere, soft skin at the base of the 

 horny beak in birds, 68 



Cerebrum, the greater or anterior 

 lobes of the brain, 20 



Cetacea, whales, 99 



Chameleons, 44 



Cheetah, hunting leopard of India, 

 104 



Cheiroptera, 115 



Chelonia, tortoises and turtles, 49 



Chewing the cud, 95 



Chimpanzee, 120 



Chinchilla, 109 



Ciconite, storks, 74 



Circulation in fishes, 20 



Civets, 104 



Clavicle, the collar-bone. 



Claws of cats, icn 



Cloaca, the cavity into which the 

 intestine and excretory organs 

 open, 79 



Cobra, hooded snake, asp, 48 



