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CHAPTER XVI 



RARE AND UNFAMILIAR ANIMALS 



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White-Headed Saki White-Thighed Guereza Sloths Bhutan Takin 

 Domestic Horses Prejevalski's Wild Horse Bontebok Blessbok 

 Aard Wolf Cape Ant Bear, or Aard Vark Great Ant-Eater Ratel, 

 or Honey Badger Brazilian Tapir Malayan Tapir Walrus 

 Viscacha Paca Agutis Crab-Eating Dog Black-Footed Cat 

 Civet Cat Malaccan Civet, or Rasse Pallas's Cat Palm Civets- 

 Genets Cape Hyrax, or Klip-Das Common Polecat Zorilla, or 

 Cape Polecat Orkney Vole Gerbils Crab-Eating Opossum. . 285 



CHAPTER XVII 



GIANTS OF THE DEEP 



Greenland Whale, and Whales in General Pigmy Whale Grey Whale 

 Humpback Whale Fin-Whales, or Rorquals Lesser Fin-Whale 

 Eden's and Rudolphi's Fin-Whales Common Fin-\Vhale, or Rorqual 

 Sibbald's Fin- Whale Sperm Whale Bottlenose Whale Sowerby's 

 Whale Layard's Whale Armux's Whale Fresh- \Vater Dolphins 

 Narwhal White Whale, or Beluga Common Porpoise Indian 

 Porpoise, and Others Killer, or Grampus Common Dolphin . . 308 



CHAPTER XVIII 



MAMMALS OF THE AIR 



Chief Features of Bats Kalong Vampire Bat Long-Eared Bat 



Pipistrelle 328 



CHAPTER XIX 



ANIMALS OF LONG AGO 



The Story of the Earth The Four Great Epochs Creatures of the Past 

 Plesiosaurs Teleosaurus Pterodactyle Deinosaurs Stegosaurus 

 Brontosaurus Other Deinosaurs The First Birds Dodo Moa 

 The Age of Mammals Palaeotherium Animals of Eocene Days 

 Brontops Evolution of the Horse Sabre-Toothed Tiger Giant 

 Sloth, or Megatherium Mylodon Scelidotherium Armadillos 

 Ancestors of the Elephant Mastodon Mammoth Conclusion . 339 



