XIV CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XXX. 



PARROTS. 



Their Peculiar Manner of Climbing — Points of Resemblance with Monkeys — 

 Their Social habits — Their Connubial Felicity — Inseparables — Talent for 

 Mimicry — Wonderful Powers of Speech and Memory — Their Wide Range within 

 the Temperate Zones — Colour of Parrots Artificially Changed by the South 

 American Indians — The Cockatoos — Cockatoo killing in Australia — The Macaw 

 —The Parakeets Page 392 



CHAPTER XXXI. 



TROPICAL RUMINANTS AND EQUIDiE. 



The Camel — Its Paramount Importance in the great Tropical Sandwastes— Its 

 Organisation admirably adapted to its mode of Life — Beauty of the Giraffe— Its 

 Wide Range of Vision — Pleasures of GriraiFe Hunting — The Antelopes — The 

 Springbok— The Reedbok— The Duiker — The Atro— The Gemsbok — The 

 Klippspringer — The Koodoo — The Gnu — The Indian Antelope — The Nylghau— 

 The Caifrarian Buffalo — The Indian Buffalo and the Tiger — Dr. Livingstone's 

 Escape from a solitary Buffalo — Swimming Peats of the Bhain — The Zebra — 

 The Quagga— The Douw 399 



CHAPTER XXXII. 



THE HIPPOPOTAMUS. 



Behemoth — Its Diminishing Number and Contracting Empire — Its Ugliness — 

 A Rogue Hippopotamus or Solitaire — Dangerous Meeting— Intelligence and 

 Memory of the Hippopotamus — Methods employed for Killing the Hippopota- 

 mus — Hippopotamus-Hunting on the Teoge — The Hippopotamus in Regent's 

 Park — A Yoimg Hippo born in Paris . . . . . , .417 



CHAPTER XXXIII. 

 THE RHINOCEROS. 



Brutality of the Rhinoceros — The Borelo — The Keitloa — The Monoho — The 

 Kobaaba — Difference of Food and Disposition between the Black and the White 

 Rhinoceros — Incarnation of Ugliness — Acute Smell and Hearing — Defective 

 Vision-^The Buphaga Africana — Paroxysms of Rage — Parental Affection — 

 Nocturnal Habits — Rhinoceros Hunting — Adventures of the Chase — Narrow 

 Escapes of Messrs. Oswell and Andersson — The Indian Rhinoceros — The Su- 

 matran Rhinoceros — The Javanese Rhinoceros — Its involuntary Suicide . 423 



