X CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER IX. 



THE VEGETABLE PRODUCTIONS OF THE CORDILLERAS. 

 Chinchona or Peruvian bark Coca ' 366 



CHAPTER X. 



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



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

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

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

 The sappho cometThe phaon comet Blue-tailed sylph 37G 



CHAPTER XL 



MAMMALIA. 



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

 cophaga tamandua Little ant-eater The sloth The tapir The peccary Hydrochaerus 

 capybara Agouti dasyprocta The paca (coslogenys) The armadillo The opossum 

 The crab-eating opossum Merian's opossum Yapock opossum Bats 391 



CHAPTER XII. 



QUADRUMANA. 



Monkeys Spider-monkeys The chemeck Macaco barrigudo The uakari Alouattes, cr 

 howlers The cuxio (bearded saki) The c&cajao Marmosets, or midas monkeys Midas 

 ursulus Midas leoninas, or Jacchus Rosalia 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 amphisbaena Ecitons Robber ecitons Blind 



