X CONTENTS 



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-Whale, or Rorqual 

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

 Whale — Layard's Whale — Armux's Whale — Fresh-Water 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 



