vni CONTEXTS. 



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

 called the buffalo in America 81 



CHAPTER VI. 



KODENTS. 

 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 215 



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 Reptiles: The rhinophryne The 

 axolotl 238 



CHAPTER II. 



CENTRAL AMERICA. 



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

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

 tail humming-bird 253 



