INDEX 
Armadillos, mail of, 476. 
Arsinoétherium, 375. 
Artiodactyla, 234, 235. 
Ass, African (Equus 
africanus), 366, 369. 
Ass, Asiatic (Equus [Asinus] onager), 
367. 
Aurochs (Bos taurus), 238. 
Axis, or spotted Indian deer, 303, 
308. 
[Asinus] 
Babakoto, or indris, a lemur, 51. 
Babirussa (Babirusa alfurus), 350. 
Baboon, characteristics of, 32. 
“Baboon, Arabian or sacred (Papio 
hamadryas), 33, 36. 
\Baboon, Celebean black (Cynopi- 
thecus niger), 32. 
‘Baboon, chacma (Papio porcarius), 
33- 
“Baboon, gelada = (Theropithecus 
gelada), 35. 
“Baboon, hamadryad, sacred in 
Egypt, 36. 
“Baboon, mandrill (Papio maimon), 
32, 34- 
~ Baboon, yellow (Papio babuin), 35. 
Badger, American (Taxidea ameri- 
cana), 177. 
Badger, European (\feles taxus), 176. 
Badger, ferret (genus Helictis), 175. 
Badger, sand, 176. 
Badger, stinking, 176. 
Balisaur (.{rclonyx collaris), 176. 
Bandicoots (family Peramelide), 506. 
Banteng or tsine (Bos sondaicus), 241. 
Barbary or Gibraltar ape, 31. 
Barrigudo or caparro monkeys, 41. 
Bat, brush-tongued, 63. 
Bat, little (Myotis lucifugus), 59. 
Bat, lyre (Wegadernta lyra), 67. 
Bats (order Chiroptera), 58. 
Bats, color protection for, 63. 
Bats, fruit-eating, 64. 
Bats, superstitions as to, 62, 67. 
Bats, vampire (genus Desmodus), 61. 
Bats, wing and membranes, 59. 
Bear, American black (Ursus 
americanus), 212, 215. 
Bear, Glacier (Ursus emmonsi), 220. 
Bear, grizzly (Ursus horribilis), 212, 
218. 
Bear, Malayan sun (Ursus malaya- 
NUS), 220. 
Bear, party-colored (luropus me- 
lanoleucus), 210, 212. 
Bear, polar (Ursus [Thalassarctos] 
marilimus), 212, 218. 
Bear, sloth (Ursus [Melursus] la- 
biaius), 212, 216. 
Bear, spectacled (Ursus [Tremarctus] 
ornatus), 211. 
Bears, ancestry of, 210, 211. 
Bears, characteristics of, 211-220. 
Bears, classification of, 212. 
Bears, methods of fishing, 214. 
Bears, prehistoric cave, 211. 
Beaver, American (Castor 
densis), 460-468. 
Beaver, European (Castor fiber), 460. 
Beaver rat (Hydromys chrysogaster), 
431, 494. 
Bengal or Rhesus monkey, 30. 
Bezoar goat or pasan, 259. 
Bharal or nahura (Ovis nahura), 257. 
Bighorn, American (Ovis cervina), 
255, 256. 
Binturong (Arctitis binturong), 154. 
Bison, American (Bos americanus) 
250. 
Bison, European (Bos bonasus), 249. 
Bison, fossil, 248. 
Bison, Indian, or gaur, 240. 
Blackbuck, Indian (Antilope cervi- 
capra), 277. 
Blacktail, or mule deer, 330. 
Blacktail, Columbian (Odocoileus 
columbianus), 332. 
cana- 
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