430 



Index 



Fig. 5. Recapturing porpoises in salt 



water pond 

 Fig. 6. Deck load of porpoise tanks 

 Fig. 7. Porpoises in New York 



Aquarium 

 Fig. 8-9-10. Tursiops truncatus 

 Figs. 11-12. Foetal Porpoise 

 Fig. 13. Head of Tursiops trunca- 

 tus 

 Fig. 14. Skull of Tursiops truncatus 

 "Killer," 292 

 playing, 290, 291 

 transportation of, 293-295 

 value commercially, 297 

 Bottled-nose, 289-299, (fig. 1), 289* 

 in captivity, 289-299 

 Primates, 



digestive organs, 



affections of, 182-186 

 respiratory organs, 



affections of, 175-182 

 sick, 



examination of, 175, 176 

 history of, 176-178 

 skin conditions, 



diseases indicated by, 176, 177 

 Pr'wnitiirus platurus, 144 

 Proboscis, 



elephant seal's, 166, 167 

 ProccUariifonnes, 74 (see also "Alba- 

 trosses," "Fulmars," "Petrels"), 

 dichromatism of, 11 

 Procyon lotor fernandesi, 327 

 Prague chatybea chalybea, 98 

 Proteroglypha, 

 fangs of, 206 

 feeding methods of, 200, 207-208 

 food of, 225-232 

 Pseudauchenipterus nodosus, 70 

 Pscudechis, 



food of, 226 

 Psilorhiiins mexicanus cyanogenys 



(Sharpe), 336, 337 

 Psittaciformes, 82-84 

 Orinoco group, 112 

 Psophia crepitans, 76 

 Ptcroglossus aracari atricollis, 89 

 Ptilopachys, 263 

 Pucrasia, 264, 278 

 Pucrasia macrolopha viacrolopha, 



278, 279, 280 

 Pucrasia xanthospila. 278, 281, 282 

 Puff-bird, 327 



Puff-bird, Double-banded, 90 

 Pyraidae, 132-137 

 Pyraustinae, 133 

 Pyromelana, 



plumage affected by moult, 253 



Python, 



Carpet, 212 

 Diamond, 212 

 food of, 210 

 Indian, 212 

 molurus, 212 



feeding habits of, 214 

 reticulatus, 212 

 Regal, 212 

 regius, 212 

 reticulatus, 



fast of, 214 

 Rock, 212 

 Royal, 212 

 sebea, 212 

 spilotes, 212 

 variegata, 212 



Quail, 



European, 264 



exterminated in Jamaica by mon- 

 goose, 9 

 Quelch, J. J., 

 quoted on : 



Cassique, Yellow-backed, 107 



Hoatzin, cry of, 54, 55 



Hoatzin, distribution of, 50 



Hoatzin, nesting of, 59 

 Hoatzin, odor of, 62 



Raccoons, 327 



Rachcolopha nivetacta Warren, 132, 



133* 

 Racket formation, 



motmots' tail-feathers, 141, 142, 143 



Parrot, Racket-tailed, 144, 145 

 Rail, Ashy-headed, 328 

 Rail, Venezuelan Wood, 73 



cry of, 73 

 Ralliformes, 73 



distribution, 



Orinoco and New York, 111 

 Raiuphastos culminatus, 89 

 Ramphastos erythrohynchus, 89 

 Ramphastos haematorrhynchus, 89 

 Ramphocelus jacapa magnirostris, 103 

 Rana chyrosprasina, 328 

 Rats, spiny, 69 

 Rattlesnake, 



Diamond-Back. 



feeding habits, 209 



digesting a mouse, (fig. 76), 198* 



