TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Introductory remarks 2 



Section A.— ENUMERATION OF ANIMALS BENEFICIAL OR INJURIOUS 



TO MAN. 



I. Mammals 5 



1. Ferae, (carnivores) 5 



Fissipedia, (laud carnivores) 6 



Pinnipedia, (seals, &c.) 6 



2. Ungulata, (hoofed animals) 6 



3. Proboscidea, (elephants, &c.) 7 



4. Sirenia, (sea-cows, &c.) 7 



5. Cete, (whales) 7 



Denticete, (sperm whales and dolphins) 7 



Mysticete, (baleen whales) 7 



6. Chiroptera, (bats) 7 



7. Insectivora, (moles, &c.) 8 



8. Glires, (gnawers) 8 



9. Bruta, (edentates) 8 



10. Marsupialia, (marsupiates) 8 



II. Birds 9 



11. Passeres, (passerines) 9 



12. Picarise, ( woodpeckers) 9 



13. Cuculi, (cuckoos) 9 



14. Psittaci, (parrots) 9 



15. Raptores, (birds of prey) 9 



16. Columbse, (pigeons) 10 



17. Gallinse, (gallinaceous birds, in part) 10 



18. Limicolse, (plovers) 10 



19. Herodiones, (herons) 10 



20. Alectorides, (cranes) 



21. Lamellirostres, (flamingoes and anserine birds) 11 



22. Steganopodes, (cormorants) 1] 



23. Longipennes, (gulls) 11 



i4. Pygopodes, (grebes and auks) 1] 



25. Spheuisci, (penguins) 1] 



III. Leptiles 12 



2t Crocodiliu, (crocodiles) 12 



