INDEX 



ANIMAL TRAINING AND ANIMAL 

 INTELLIGENCE, 157-185. 



Animals varying in color with local- 

 ity, 27. 



Ant-eater, Great {Myrmecophaga 

 jubata), 65. 



Armadillos, 67. 



BADGER, THE, AND HIS KIN, 119- 

 154 ; American ( Taxidea ameri- 

 cana), 134, 154. 



Badger-baiting as a sport, 145. 



Badger, Mexican. See Tejon. 



Badgers, Old World, 137; tame, 



153- 

 Bat, a fish-eating (Noctilio lepo-* 



rinus), 73. 

 Beaver, American {Castor fiber), 



7i. 132. 



Birds, educated and performing, 

 159; making friends with men, 

 120; tails of, 63, 78, 80, 92. 



Bobcat (lynx), 62. 



Bulls, educated, 178. 



Burrowing animals, considered, 142. 



Carnivora, education of, 162. 

 Catamount, name, 36. 

 Cats, performing, 185. 

 Chipmunk or ground-squirrel, 28. 

 Color in animals, 27, 29, 34, 37, 236. 

 Color-marks in burrowing animals, 

 147. 



Colors, warning, 235, 242. 

 Conepate ( Conepatus mapuritd) , 



248. 



Cougar. See Puma. 

 Counige in beasts of prey, 41. 

 Coyote, the ( Cauls latrans) , 99-1 16 ; 



and antelope, in; cunning and 



wariness of, 114; hunting in 



Nicaragua, 102. 

 Crocodiles, power of the tails of, 



80, 82. 

 Crustacea, egg-carrying, 69. 



Dog, education of, 180. 

 Donkeys, trained, 178. 



Elephants, 69, 156. 

 Eyra (Felis eyra} , 37. 



FATHER OF GAME, THE, 33-58. 

 Fishes, uses of tails of, 74, 77, 79. 

 Flying-squirrel and birds' eggs, 23. 

 Fox-squirrel (Sciurus niger), 28. 



Greyhound, origin of the, 145. 

 Ground-hog. See Woodchuck, 

 Ground-lizard (Oligosoma laterale) , 

 78. 



Hagenbeck's trained-animal circus, 



163. 



Hermit-crab (Eupagttrus\66. 

 Horses, performing, 175. 



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