vi u • CONTENTS. 



or Virginian deer — The antelope — The bighorn, or mountain sheep — The bison, commonly 

 called the buffalo in America 31 



CHAPTER VI. 



RODENTS. 

 The beaver — The musk-rat, or musquash — Prairie-dogs —The porcupine 128 



CHAPTER VII. 



CARNIVORA. 



The black bear— The grizzly bear— Wolves — Lynxes— The wolverene, or glutton — The rac- 

 coon — The agouara, or crab-eating raccoon — The ermine — The pine-marten — The otter--- 

 The skunk — -The pekan, or wood-shock — The mink — Marsupials, or pouched animals : 

 The Virginian or common opossum ljo 



CHAPTER VIII. 



THE FEATHERED TRIRES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



The bald or white-headed eagle — The wild turkey — The ocellated turkey — The canvas-back 

 duck — The summer duck — The pinnated grouse, or prairie hen — The ruffed grouse, or 

 American pheasant — Passenger-pigeons — Humming-birds — The cow-bird — The blue-bird 

 - — The snow-bird —The Carolina parrot 189 



CHAPTER TX. 



REPTILES. 



Tortoises: — The lettered terrapin — The chicken tortoise — The salt-water terrapin — The box 

 tortoise — The mud tortoise — The alligator terrapin — The snapping turtle — Lizards: — 

 The six-lined taraguina — The glass snake — The anolis — The crowned tapayaxin — Snakes : 

 — The rattlesnake — The banded and military rattlesnakes — The corn snake — The thunder 

 snake — The chicken snake — The milk or house snake — The black snake — The coach-whip 

 snake — Frogs: — The bull frog — The solitary frog — The savannah cricket frog — The 

 changeable tree frog — The spotted eft — The menopoma — The congo snake — The necturus 

 — The siren, or mud eel — Grasshoppers, or locusts 21.0 



X 3 'Ui .Scconli. 



MEXICO AND CENTRAL AMERICA. 



CHAPTER I. 



MEXICO. 



Birds of Mexico: — The scarlet tanager — The anis, or savannah blackbird -Massina's trogon 

 — The Mexican trogon — The resplendent trogon — Reptiles: — The rhinophryne — The 

 axolotl 2.irf 



CHAPTER II. 



CENTRAL AMERICA. 



Honduras and the Mosquito Country — Fauna — The mahogany-tree -Humming-birds: — The 

 Blender shear-tail— The rufus fl.me-bearer — Princess Helena's coquette The sparkling- 

 tail humming-bird 2f>3 



