INDEX 



Animal Train:ng and Animal 

 Intelligence, 157-185. 



Animals varying in color with local- 

 ity, 27. 



Ant-eater, Great (Myrmecophaga 

 jubata)^ 65. 



Armadillos, 67. 



Badger, The, and his Kin, 119- 

 154; American {Taxidea ameri- 

 cand) , 134, 154. 



Badger-baiting as a sport, 145. 



Badger, Mexican. See Tejon. 



Badgers, Old World, 137; tame, 



IS3- 

 Bat, a fish-eating {Nodilio lepo- 



rinus) , 73. 

 Beaver, American {^Castor fiber^, 



71. 132- 



Birds, educated and performing, 

 159 ; making friends with men, 

 120 ; tails of, 63, 78, 80, 92. 



Bobcat (lynx) , 62. 



Bulls, educated, 178. 



Burrowing animals, considered, 142. 



Carnivora, education of, 162. 

 Catamount, name, 36. 

 Cats, performing, 185. 

 Chipmunk or ground-squirrel, 28. 

 Color in animals, 27, 29, 34, 37, 236. 

 Color-marks in burrowing animals, 

 147- 



Colors, warning, 235, 242. 

 Conepate {Conepatus mapurito), 



248. 

 Cougar. See Puma, 

 Courage in beasts of prey, 41. 

 Coyote, the ( Canis latrans) , 99-1 16 ; 



and antelope, iii; cunning and 



wariness of, 114; hunting in 



Nicaragua, 102. 

 Crocodiles, power of the tails of, 



80, 82. 

 Crustacea, egg-carrying, 69. 



Dog, education of, 180. 

 Donkeys, trained, 178. 



Elephants, 69, 156. 

 Eyra (Felis eyrd) , 37. 



Father of Game, The, 33-58. 

 Fishes, uses of tails of, 74, 77, 79. 

 Flying-squirrel and birds' eggs, 23. 

 Fox-squirrel i^Sciurus niger) , 28. 



Greyhound, origin of the, 145. 

 Ground-hog. See Woodchuck. 

 Ground-lizard {Oligosoma laterals) , 

 78. 



Hagenbeck's trained-animal circus, 



163. 

 Hermit-crab (Eupagurus) , 66. 

 Horses, performing, 175. 



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