LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



HALF-VOL. VI 



COLOURED PLATES 



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Nuthatches {Sitta cczsia) feeding Young. 



From a Drawing by A. Fairfax Muckley FrOfltispiece 



Swallows and Martins chasing Insects. 



From a Drawing by A. Fairfax Muckley 302 



Family of Common Squirrels {Sciurus vulgaris). 



From a Drawing by Friedrich Specht 370 



Life-History of the Common Frog {Rana temporarid). 



From a Drawing by A. Fairfax Muckley 4 "^6 



BLACK-AND-WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS 



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Parachuting Animals - - - 282 



African Flying- Squirrel {Anomalurus peli) 284 

 Australian Flying-Mouse ^Acrobates pyg- 



m(sus) ------- 285 



Instantaneous Photographs of a Pigeon 



descending to the Ground (after Marey) 286 

 Fringed Gecko (Ptychozodn homalocepha- 



lum) 287 



Australian Flying-Spider (Alius volans) - 289 

 Young Spider spinning a "Gossamer" 



Thread (from Graber) - - - - 290 



Pipistrelles ( Vesperugo pipistrellus) - - 293 



Skeleton of Bat 294 



Extinct Toothed Bird {Archaopteryx) (after 



Doderlein) ------ 296 



Shoulder-girdles and Breastbone of Pigeon 298 



Wing-bones of Pigeon - - - - 298 



Structure of Pheasant's Wing - - - 300 



Diagram of Wing- Action (after Alix) - 302 

 Photographs of Phases in Flight (after 



Marey) .-..-- 304 



A Falcon Swooping - - . . -506 

 Restoration of Paddle-tailed Pterosaur 



(Rhamporhynchus) (after Zittel) - - 308 



Cross-section of a Butterfly (from Graber)- 310 



Wasp flying in the Sun (after Marey) - 311 



Wings of Insects 



A Marine Worm (Myrianida) dividing 

 (after Milne Edwards) - - - - 



Fission of a Proteus Animalcule (Amceba) 

 (after Schulze) ----- 



Fission of Ciliated Animalcules (after 

 Johnson and Butschli) - - - - 



Budding Animalcules (after R. Hertwig and 

 Butschli) ------ 



A Spore-forming Animalcule ( Colpoda) (after 

 Rhumbler) ------ 



GUENONS ( Cercopithectis sabixus) RETREAT- 

 ING FROM A MaIZE-FieLD- 



Conjugation of Slipper-Animalcule (Para- 

 mecium caudatum) (after Maupas) 

 Diagram of ditto - - - - - 



Conjugation of Bell-Animalcule ( Voriicdla) 



(after Wallengren) - - - . 



Cup-Sponge (Polylophus) budding (after 



Schulze) ------ 



Gemmule of Freshwater Sponge [Spongilla) 

 (after Goette) - - - - . 



Freshwater Polype (Hydra) budding 

 Vegetative Propagation of Sea-Anemones - 

 Vegetative Propagation, &c., in Star-Fishes 

 (after Haeckel and Sarasin) - 



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