CONTENTS. 



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the Venom.— The Poison-Fangs.— The Bush-Master.— The Echidna Ocellata.— Kattle- 

 enakes.— Their Enemy the Hog.— The Cobra de Capello.— The Haje.— The Cerastes.— 

 Boas and Pythons. — The Boa-constrictor. — The Water Boa. — Fascination by Snakes. — 

 Henderson's Argument against It. — Thorpe's Reasons in its Favor. — Du Chaillu on the 

 Subject. — Enemies of Serpents. — The Secretary Bird. — The Adjutant Bird. — The Mon- 

 goos. — Serpents Eating Serpents. — The Locomotion of Serpents. — Anatomy of their 

 Jaws. — A Serpentine Meal. — Pet Serpents. — Tree Snakes. — Water Snakes. — Stories of 

 Enormous Snakes. — Du Chaillu's Big Snake. — Wallace's Bigger One. — Lizards: The 

 Geckoe. — Anatomy of its Feet. — Their Wide Distribution. — The Anolis. — Its Combative- 

 ness.— The Chameleon. — Its Habits, Change of Color, and Characteristics. — The Iguana. — 

 The Teju.-^ Water Lizards. — Flying Dragons. — The Basilisk. — Frogs and Toads: The Pipa 

 Frog.— Tree Frogs.— WaUace's Flying Frog.— The Bahia Toad.— The Giant Toad.— The 

 Musical Toad, Page 616 



CHAPTER XI. 



ALLIGATORS — CROCODILES — TORTOISES AND TURTLES. 



AUyators and Crocodiles : Their Habits. — Caymen, Gavials and Crocodiles. — Mode of Seizing 

 their Prey. — Size of Alligators. — Alligators on the Amazon. — Alligator and Crane. — Man- 

 Eating Alligators. — Their Contests. — Tenacity of Life. — Laying their Eggs. — Tenderness 

 for their Young. — Their Enemies. — Torpidity in the Dry Season. — "Playing 'Possum." — 

 Tortoises and Turtles: The Galapago Islands. — The Elephantine Tortoise. — Rate of Trav- 

 eling. — Marsh Tortoises. — Manufacture of Tortoise Oil. — Turtles on the Amazon. — Sea- 

 Turtles. — Their Enemies. — Modes of Capturing Turtles. — The Green Turtle. — The Hawks- 

 bill Turtle. — Barbarous Modes of Removing the Shell, and Selling the Meat. — The Cori- 

 aceous Tm-tle, 635 



CHAPTER XII. 



BIRD-LIFE IN THE TROPICAL WORLD. 



Difficulties of the Subject. — Wide Range of Birds. — The Toucan. — Humming-Birds. — Cotin- 

 gas. — The Campanero, or Bell-Bird. — The Realejo, or Organ-Bird, — The Manakins. — Th« 

 Cock of the Rock. — The Troopials. — The Baltimore Oriole. — The Cassiques, — The Mock. 

 ing-Bird. — The Toropishu. — The Tunqui. — Goat-Suckers. — The Cilgero. — Flamingos.-^ 

 The Ibis. — Spoon-Bills. — Birds of the New and the Old World. — Sun-Birds. — Honey-Eat 

 ers. — The Ocellated Turkey. — The Lyre-Bird. — Birds of Paradise. — Fables respecting 

 them. — Their Character and Habits. — Their Dancing-Parties. — Mode of Shooting and 

 Snaring them. — The Australian Bower-Bird. — The Brush-Turkey. — The Adjutant. — The 

 Copper-smith.- The Indian Bay a.— The Tailor-Bird.— The Grosbeak.— The Korwe'.^ 

 Parrots. — The Brazilian Love-Parrot. — Their Powers of Mimicry. — Cockatoos. — Macaws. 

 —The Ara.— Paroquets.— The Ostrich.— His Swiftness of Foot.— Modes of Capturing it.— 

 Stratagems to Save its Young. — Its Enemies. — Its Young. — Resemblance to the Camel. — 

 Its Powers of Digestion.— Uses of its Eggs.— The Rheas.— The Cassowary.— The Emu, 645 



CHAPTER XIIL 



THE climbers: bats, SLOTHS, AND SIMI^. 



Bats: Their Wonderful Organization. — The Fox-Bat — Eaten by the Malays. — Vampire Bats 

 — Their Blood-sucking Propensities. — The Horseshoe Bat. — The Nycteribia. — The Flying 

 Squirrel. — The Galeopithecus. — The Anomalurus. — The Sloth: Pitiful Description given 

 of Him. — His beautiful Organization for his peculiar Mode of Life. — His rapid Movements 

 in the Trees— His Means of Defense.— His Tenacity of Life.— The Unau— The Ai.— 

 Gigantic Primeval Sloths. — Monkeys: Good Climbers, but bad Walkers. — Imperfectly 

 known to the Ancients. — Similitudes and Differences between Man and Apes. — The Chim- 

 panzee.— The Gorilla.— Du Chaillu's First Encounter with a Gorilla.— The Gorilla and her 

 Young.— The Orang-Utan, or Mias.— Wallace's Accounts of Shooting the Orang.— Their 

 Tenacity of Life.— Size of the Orang.- The Orang as a Combatant.— The Orang fighting 



