INDEX 
Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana), 
286-292. 
Protective coloration, 295, 303. 
Protohippus, Miocene horse, 354, 
355- 
Protorohippus, Eocene horse, 353. 
Prototheria, subclass of, 490, 521- 
526. 
Pudu deer (Pudua humilis), 333. 
Puma (Felis concolor), 90-97. 
Puma, behavior toward man, 95. 
Puma, methods of hunting, 96. 
Puss and her ancestors, 133-141. 
Quagga (Equus quagga), 363. 
Rabbit, cottontail, or wood hare, 
4Il. 
Rabbit, domestic (Lepus cuniculus), 
408. 
Rabbit, plague of, in Australia, 4o9. 
Rabbit, use of the word, 408. 
Raccoon (Procyon lotor), 221. 
Rat, bamboo (genus Rhizomys), 431. 
Rat, beaver (H_ydromys chrysogaster), 
431. 
Rat, black (Mus alexandrinus), 429. 
Rat, brown house (Mus rattus), 429. 
Rat, crested or webber (Lophiomys 
imhausi), 441. 
Rat, kangaroo (Perodipus and Dipo- 
domys), 424. 
Ratel, African (Mellivora capensis), 
175- : 
Ratel, East Indian (Mellivora indica), 
176. 
Rats as sources of disease, 430. 
Ravine deer or blackbuck, 277. 
Recognition colors, 287. 
Reindeer, European (Rangifer taran- 
dus), 321, 325. 
Restoration of fossil animals, 87., 
Rhesus monkey (Macacus rhesus), 
30. 
Rhinoceros, African black (R. bi- 
cornis), 38r. 
Rhinoceros, ancestry of, 374. 
Rhinoceros, hairy-eared (R. lasiotis), 
380. 
Rhinoceros, horn of, 375, 376, 377. 
Rhinoceros, Indian (Rhinoceros in- 
dicus), 378. 
Rhinoceros, Sumatran or Sondaic 
(R. sondaicus), 381. 
Rhinoceros, white or 
mouthed (R. simus), 382. 
Rhinoceros, woolly or tichorine, 377. 
Rhytina or Arctic sea-cow, 400. 
Rock-badgers or rock-rabbits, 232. 
Rodentia, order of Gnawers, 404. 
Rodents, ancestry of, 406. 
Roebuck (Capreolus caprea), 305. 
Ruminantia, 236-334. 
Ruminants, digestion in, 273. 
square- 
Saber-toothed tigers, 86-90. 
Sable, American (jfustela ameri- 
cana), 164. 
Sable, European (Mustela zibellina), 
164. 
Saiga, or kiik (Saiga tartarica) 278. 
Saimiris (monkeys), 46. 
Sakis or ooakaries (monkeys), 44. 
Salamander (Geomys tuza), 427. 
Sambar deer (Cervus unicolor), 303, 
307. 
Samotherium, 298. 
Sapajou, or Capuchin monkey, 38. 
Sapi-utan, or anoa, 243. 
Scaletails (Anomaluris), 446. 
Sea-cows (Sirenia), 400. 
Sea-otter (Latax lutris), 186.’ 
Seals and sea-bears, 230. 
Serval (Felis serval), 133. 
Set, symbolized by okapi, 297. 
Sha or oorial, 251, 252. 
Sheep, Barbary, 257. 
Sheep, blue (Ovis nahura), 257. 
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