ILLUSTRATIONS. 



rAGK 



Nesis of Baya Sparrow {Ploceus baya) . . . Frontispiect 



Trap-door Spider and Nest Titlepage 



Fortress of the Mole 2 



The Rabbit Warren 17 



Canada Pouched Rat [Plan of Burrow) .... 20 



Polar Bear 21 



Pichiciago 23 



Aard Vark 26 



Sand Martins 33 



Puffin 3^ 



Pholas in Wood— Lithodomus— Razor Shell— Holes of 



Pholas in Rock 58 



Shipworm 61 



Nest of Trap-door Spider (from a Specimen in the collection 



of Lieut. -Col. C. J. Cox) . . .... 69 



MYRMELEON— AmPULEX — SCOLIA 80 



BoMBUS Terrestris— BoMBUs Lapidarius .... 83 



Cocoons of Scarab^eus and Goliath 95 



SCOLYTUS 103 



The Tailor Birds 123 



Ptilotus Sonorus — Entomophila Picta— Entomophila Al- 



BOGULARIS — SeRICORNIS CiTREOGULARlS— OrIGMA Ru- 



BRICATA 128 



Swallow Dic^eum 134 



Lanceolate Honey-eater {Plectorhynchus lanceolatus) . .136 



Little Hermit {^Pha'ithornis eremita) 138 



Sawbill Humming Bird— Brazilian Wood Nymph—White- 



sided Hill Star 140 



Crested Cassique — Baltimore Oriole 143 



Tatua MoRio 152 



Nectarinia— Myrapetra ........ 155 



