LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



TRAPDOOR-SPIDER ..... Frontispiece 



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SOLITARY WASPS . .... 32 



A RIDE ON BEETLE-BACK, AND A LIVING SWEETSHOP . 48 



AN ANT HILL BY DAY . . . . . .56 



PRAYING MANTIS . . . . . . 96 



BUCCANEER-FLY AND LEAF-RESEMBLING INSECT . . 104 



PROTECTIVE MIMICRY ..... . . .112 



A WILLING PRISONER . . , . . . 120 



A BIRD-CATCHING SPIDER , . f . . 128 



BUTCHER-BIRD'S LARDER .. ; , . . . 132 



NEST OF THE WEAVER-BIRD . '.,.' . . , 136 



BIRD PIRATES . . . . . , . 144 



PTARMIGAN '. . - . . . . , 152 



BOWER- BIRD ., ..... , 160 



INSECT FREEBOOTER AND INSECT BEGGAR . . .168 



CROCODILE-BIRDS . . . . . .176 



THREE versus ONE . . . . . .192 



BEAVERS TREE-FELLING ..... 200 



POCKET-GOPHERS . . . . . .208 



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