CONTENTS XVU 



— Beauty in character — Forms of the yucca and maguey — 

 The UuTia d'oro — Grotesque forms — Abnormal colors — 

 Blossoms and flowers — Many varieties — Wild flowers — 

 Salt-bush — The grasses and lichens — The continuous 

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Chaftbk IX. Desert Animals. — Meeting desert re- 

 quirements — Peculiar desert character — Desert Indians 

 — Xjife without water — Endurance of the jack-rabbit 

 — Prairie dogs and water — Water famine — Coyotes 

 and wild cats living without water — Lean, gaunt life — 

 Fierceness of animals — Attack and escape — The wild 

 cat— Spring of the cat— Mountain lion— His habits— 

 The gray wolf — Home of the wolf — The coyote — His 

 cleverness— His subsistence — His background— The fox 

 —The prey — Devices for escape — Senses of the rabbit — 

 Speed of the jack-rabbit — His endurance — The " cotton- 

 tail " — Squirrels and gophers — Desert antelope — His eyes, 

 nose, and ears — His swiftness — The mule-deer — Deer 

 in flight — White-tailed deer — The reptiles — Defence of 

 poison— The fang and sting— The rattlesnake and his 

 poison — Spiders and tarantulas— Centipedes and scor- 

 pions—Lizards and swifts — The hydrophobia skunk — The 

 cutthroat band — The eternal struggle — Brute courage 

 md character — Beauty in character — Graceful forms of 

 inimals — Colors of lizards — Mystery of motion 160 



Chapter X. TWrayerf it/e.— First day's walk— Tracks 



in the sand — Scarcity of birds — Dangers of bird-life No 



:over for protection — Food problem — Heat and drouth 

 igain — A bird's temperature — Innocent-looking birds — 

 The road-runner — Wrens and fly-catchers — Develop- 

 ment of special characteristics — Birds of the air The 



Fulture— His hunting and sailing — The southern buzzard 

 —The crow — The great condor — Eagles and hawks — Bats 



