VOL. II. 



CONTENTS. 



BOOK II. BIRDS. 



CHAP. PAPB 



T. The Osteich and its Kindred _ , 385 



II. The GAME-BIIiDS AND RAILS . . ,S!I7 



II [. TlGEONS AND SAND-GlinUSE . , 4.M 



IV. Auks, Gulls, and Plovers . 417 

 V. Bustards and Cranes .... 12I 

 VI. Grebes and Divers, I'enguins, and Tube- 

 nosed Birds 428 



VIT. Storks, Herons, and Telican Tuihe . 43.5 



VIII. Screamers, Ducks, Geese, and Swans 4u6 



IX, Birds of Prey and Owls .... 464 



X. Night-jars, swifts, and Humming-birds. 481 



XI. Parrots, Cuckoos, and Plantain-eaters . 487 



XII. Rollers, Kingfishers, Hornbills, and 



Hoopoes 498 



XIII. Bee-eaters, JIotmots, Todies, Colies, and 

 Trogons .506 



XIV. Toucans, Honey-guides, Jacamars and 

 Puff-birds, Barbets and Woodbeckers . 508 



XV. Perching-eieds 514 



XVI. Larks, Titmice, Honey-eaters, and their 



kindred .... . . 526 



XVII. Shrikes, Thrushes and their allies. 

 Swallows, Lyre-birds, Chatterers, P.road- 



BiLLS, etc. . . . 533 



BOOK III. REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS. 



I. Crocodiles and Alligators . . 545 



II. Tortoises and Tui-.tles . . 551 



IlL Lizards 563 



IV. Chameleons and Tuatera . , . 581 



V. Snakes .... 585 



VI. Frogs and Toads . . . 598 



VII. Kewts and Salamanders .... 605 



BOOK ir. FISHES. 



I. LUNG-FISUES AND CHIMJ3RAS . . . 609 



II. The Perch Family .... .612 



CHAP. ptoii 



III. Scaly-fiks, Red Mullets, Sea-breams, 

 Scorpion-fishes, Slime-heads, Tassel-fisu, 

 Meagsbs, and Sword-fishes . . . .613 



IV. Hair-tails, Horse-mackerels, Sea-bats, 

 Dories, Mackerels, Sucking - fishes, 

 Weavers, Frog-fishes, Angler-fishes, 

 Bull-heads, and Gurnards . . 620 



V. Lump-suckers, Gobies, Blennies, Barra- 

 cudas, Grey Mullets, Sticklebacks and 

 their allies, Garpike, and Flying-fishes 628 

 VI. The Wrasse-like Fishes . . . .633 

 VII. Pipe-fishes, Sea-horses, Globe-fishes, Sun- 

 fishes, AND THEIR ALLIES .... 636 



VIII. The Cod Family 641 



IX. Cave-fishes, Sand-eels and their allies, 



and Flat-fishes . . . 643 



X. Eels and Cat-fishes . 646 



XL The Carp Family . . . . C50 

 XII. Pikes, Aeapaimas. Beaked Salmon, and 



SCOPELIDS ... . . 652 



XIII. The Salmon Family . . . . 655 



XIV. The Herring and its kindred . . . 658 

 XV. Bony Pike, Bow-fin, Sturgeon, Reed-fish, 



and Bichir . . . . 662 



XVI. Sharks and Rays . . 664 



BOOK r. JOINTED ANIMALS. 



I. The Crab and Scorpion Groups . . 670 



II. Insects 681 



BOOKVL SHELL-FISH, LAMP-SHELLS, SEA-URCHINS, 



STAR-FISIIES, MOSS-ANIMALS, WORMS, CORALS, 



JELLY-FISHES, AND SPONGES. 



I. Shell-fish, ok Molluscs .... 737 



II. Lamp-shells .... . . 744 



III. Star-fishes, Sea-urchins, etc. . , 746 



IV. Moss-animals .... . . 753 



V. Worms 754 



VI. Corals, Sea-anemones, and Jelly-fishes . 758 



VII. Sponges and Animalcules . 764 



COLOURED PLATES. 



Cassowary 



Crowned Crane ..... 



Australian Cockatoo — Macaw — INlale 



Ruff in full breeding-plumage — 



Laughing-jackass 

 Eloopoe flying ... 

 Waxbills — Indigo Finches . 



Facing pa^i 



. 385 



417 



449 

 481 

 513 



Green and Ocellated Lizards 

 The West African Python . 

 Western Australian IScarlet Rock-cod 



— I>eemantle Devil-fish, or Armed 



Gurnard .... 

 A Salmon leaping 



Fachig page 



545 



577 



609 

 641 



Facing p.ig- 



Goliath Beetle — Brazilian Bee — 

 Grasshopper — Candle-fly — Austra- 

 lian Robber-fly — Japanese Analo- 



phus .073 



Croesus Butterfly of Batchian . . 705 

 Portion of Inwhore Coral Reef at 

 Thursday Island, Torres Straits . 737 



PAHE 



Rufous Tinainou, Brazil . 3S5 



Rhea and young . . 3S5 



Rhea and young ones , 38(j 



[Ibea lylntr down . . 3Sii 



Rhe;is in Tring Park . 3S7 



White Rheaa . . .388 

 Ostrich standing besiJe 



her ep-ps . . . 3S9 



Ostriches ten days old '690 



An Ostrich Family . . 301 

 A group of Cuck Ostiichea 302 



Sclater's Cassowary . . 393 



Nest and eggs of Emeu . 394 

 Young Emeus five d.ijs 



old . , . . 304 



Young Emeus . . 395 



Emeu . . . 305 



Mantell's Kiwi . . .396 



Owen's Kiwi . , . 39ii 



Red Grouse . . . 397 



Ptarmigan . . 39S 



Capercallie . . . 398 



Common Partridge . . 398 



Texan Bol^-white . . 399 

 Golden Pheasant . 400, AQ\ 



Silver Pheasant . 401 



English Pheasants . -JOi 



Reeves's Pheasant 401 



Amherst's Pheasant - 40 1 



Peacock-pheasant - '"" 



Temminck's Trago]-aii . 4U:i; 



Chinese Tragopan . 402 



Him alayan MonaJ 403 



ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT. 



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Red Cochins . . 40-} 



Brown Leghorn Cock . ^04 

 8ilver-spangled Hamburg's -505 

 Dark Braniiis . . 400 



Silver Wyandotte lien 



with Pheasant Chicks 400 

 Peacock .... 407 

 Back view of Peacock . 407 

 Black-chested Crested 



Guinea-fowl . . 40S 

 Nest of Brush -turkey at 



Wuburn Abbey . . 409 

 Turkey Cock and lien . 409 

 Wallace's Painted IVIega- 



pode . . . 410 



Razor-billed Curassow . 411 

 Crested Curassow , 411 



Hoatzin ... 412 



Weka-rail . . . .413 

 Water-rail. . . .413 

 A pair of young Pigeons 



in nest . . . 414 

 Southern Fruit-pigeon 415 

 Nicobar Inipeiial Fruit- 



pigeous . 415 



New Guinea Crowned 



Pigeon . . 415 



Wonga-wonga Pigeon ^15 



Male Black-bellied Sand- 

 grouse . . 416 

 White Tein . . .417 

 Terns on a shiiiyle b..nk . 418 

 Uerring-guU . . 419 



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Young Herring-gulls in the 



grey phase of plumage 419 

 Stone-curlew, or Thick- 

 knee . . . .420 

 Curlew . . 420 



Woodcock . . . .421 

 Oyster-catclier on its neat 421 

 Denbam'a Bustard . 422 



Great Bustards. . 422 



Indian Bustards . . 423 

 Stanley Crane . 424 



Cnnimon Crane . 425, 426 



Manchurian Crane . 426 



Wattled Crane . . 426 



Seiienia .... 427 

 White-backed Trumjieters 427 

 Great Crested Grebe . 428 



Black-throated Divers . 428 

 Rock-hopper Penguin . 429 

 Black-footed Penguin . 430 

 Black-footed Penguins 



bathing . . 431 



King-penguin . . 432 



Nesting Albatrosses . 433 



AVhite-cajiped Albatross 434 

 Carting Albatross eggs 434 

 Fulmar Petrel . . 435 



Whale-headed Stork . 436 



White Storks . . -137 



Adjutant-stork. . . 438 

 Jabiru Stork . 438 



Flamingoes . . 439, 440 

 European Flamingoes . 440 



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Spoonbill . . 441 



Sacred Ibis . . 441 



Young Herons fcuateen 



days old in nest. . 442 

 Great Blue Heron . . 443 

 Common Night-heron . 444 

 Young Common Herons . 444 

 Green Heron . . 445 



Butf-backed Heron . . 446 

 Indian Cattle-egiet . . 4^7 

 Common Bittern . , 448 

 Egyptian Pelican . 449 



Crested Pelican . . 450 

 Young Australian Pelican 451 

 Young Pelicans . 451 



Cormorant . . . 452 



Frigate-birds at home . 453 

 Young Ganneta, first }ear 454 

 Cannet, second year . 454 



Gannet, full pluniiige . 454 

 Gannets on the Bass Rock 455 

 Crested Screamer, or 



Chaka . . 456 



Aylesbury Duck . . 457 

 Pochard . . . 457 



Eider-duck . . ,458 

 Sheldrake . . . 458 



Paradise-ducks . . 459 



Cape Barren Goube . 4i^0 



Australian Pygmy Goose . 461 

 Black-necked S*van . . 401 

 Trumpeter- and Whooper- 



swans. . . . 4C2 



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Australian Black Swans 



and Cygnets . 463 



Condor . . . 464 



King-vulture . . 465 



Black Vultures . . 465 



Californian Vultuie. . 466 



Secretary-bird . , , 467 



Egyptian Kite . . . 463 



Australian Osprey . . 469 



Bearded Vulture . 470 



Griffon-vulture . . 471 



Riippell's Vulture . . 471 



Angolan Vulture . . 472 



Pondicherry Vulture . 472 



Egyptian Vultuie . 473 



Wedge-tailed Eagle . . 473 

 American Sparrow-ha\\k . 474 



Vociferous Sea-eagle . 475 



Imperial Eagle . 475 



Crested Eagle . 475 



Chilian Sea-eagle . . 475 



Rough-legged Buzzard , 476 



Martial Hawk-e;igle . 476 



Peregrine Falcon . . 477 



Spectacled Owl . . 477 



Eagle-owl. . . . 478 



Virginian Eagle-owl . 478 

 American Long-eared Owl 479 



Tawny Owl . . .479 



Screech-owl . , . 480 

 Barn-owl .... 48jS 



Common Night-jar . . 48i 

 Pennant-winged' Night-jar 48j 



