xviii CONTENTS. 



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. The 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 : The Lion. Fictitious Character ascribed to him. 

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

 Li on . 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 Felidae of New World. The Jaguar. 

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

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CHAPTER XV. 



THE ELEPHANT RHINOCEROS 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. The 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. The 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. The 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. The Giraffe known to the Ancients. Zebra and Quaggat: 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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