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CONTENTS. 



the Crocodile and Python. — Habits of the Orang.^ — Wallace's Young Pet Orang. — The 

 Gibbons, — Monkeys of the Old and New Worlds. — The Semnopitheci. — The Proboscis 

 Monkey. — The Sacred Ape of the Hindus. — The Cercopitheci. — The Magots. — The Cyno- 

 cephali, or Baboons. — The Maimon. — The Great Baboon of Senegal. — The Derryas. — The 

 Loris. — Monkeys of the New World. — Monkeys Distinguished by their Tails and Teeth. — 

 The Wourali Poison. — The Indian Blow Pipe. — Mildness of American Monkeys. — The 

 Howling Monkeys. — The Spider-Monkeys. — The Fox-tail Monkeys. — The Sa'imaris. — Noc- 

 turnal Monkeys. — The Domesticated Nocturnals. — The Squirrel-Monkey, Page 669 



CHAPTER XIV. 



TROPICAL BEASTS AND BIRDS OP PREY. 



Variety of Carnivorous Creatures. — Birds of Prey : The Condor. — His Marvelous Flight. — His 

 Cowardice. — Modes of Capturing them. — Tlie Turkey-Buzzard, or Carrion Vulture. — The 

 King of the Vultures. — The Urubu. — Capable of Domestication. — The Harpy Eagle. — 

 The Sociable Vulture. — The Bacha. — The Fishing Eagle. — The Musical Sparrow-Hawk. — 

 The Secretary Eagle. — Beasts of Prey : Tlie Lion. — Fictitious Character ascribed to him. 

 — Mode of Seizing his Prey. — Lions and Giraffe. — Lion and Hottentot. — Andersson and a 

 Lion. — Livingstone's narrow Escape. — Lion-Hunting in the Atlas. — By the Bushmen. — Cap- 

 turing their Young. — Former and present Range of the Lion. — Lion and Rhinoceros. — 

 Livingstone's Estimate of the Lion. — The Tiger. — Their Ravages in Java. — Wide Range of 

 the Tiger. — Tiger-Hunting in India. — Escape from a Tiger. — Animals announcing the Ap- 

 proach of a Tiger. — Turtle-hunting Tigers. — The Panther and Leopard. — The Cheetah. — 

 The Hyena. — The Spotted and Brown Hyenas. — The Felidse of New World. — The Jaguar. 

 — Hunting the Jaguar. — The Cougar, or Puma. — The Ocelot. — The Jaguarandi. — The 

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CHAPTER XV. 



THE ELEPHANT — RHINOCEROS — HIPPOPOTAMUS — CAMEL — ZEBRA. 



The Great Tropical Pachydermati. — The Elephant: DijQference between the tame and wild 

 Elephant. — His Instinctive Timidity. — Acuteness of His Senses. — His Sagacity in Climbing 

 Hills. — His wonderful Trunk. — His Tusks. — Elephant Herds. — The Rogue, or Solitary Ele- 

 phant. — The Asiatic and African Species. — The African Elephant tamed in Ancient Times. 

 — Present Range of the African Elephant. — Native Modes of Hunting the African Elephant. 

 — The Elephant and the Rifle. — Perils of Elephant-Hunters. — Elephant- Hunting in Abyssinia. 

 — The Asiatic Elephant. — Elephant-Hunting in Ceylon. — The Panickeas, or Native Elephant- 

 Hunters. — Elephantine Head- Work. — Obstinate Brutes. — The Rhinoceros: Range and Char- 

 acter of the Rhinoceros. — Two Species, the Black and the White. — Size of the Rhinoceros. — 

 Acuteness of its Senses. — Its winged Attendant. — Its parental Affection. — Its nocturnal 

 Habits. — Modes of Hunting the Rhinoceros. — The One-Horned or Indian Rhinoceros. — The 

 Two-Horned Rhinoceros of the Malay Archipelago. — Rhinoceros-Paths in Java. — The Hip- 

 popotamus: Is the Hippopotamus the Behemoth of Jobl — Habits of the Hippopotamus. — 

 Its uncouth Aspect. — Rogue Hippopotami. — Intelligence of the Hippopotamus. — Uses of its 

 Skin and Teeth. — Mode of Killing the Hippopotamus. — The Camel : Its Adaptation to the 

 Tropical Sand -Wastes. — Its Physical Organization adapted to its Mode of Life. — Its Foot 

 and its Stomach. — Its Desert Home. — The Camel and the Arab. — The Two-Humped and 

 One-Humped Camels. — The Camel an immemorial Serf. — Its Aspect and Temper. — The 

 Giraffe: Beauty of the Giraffe. — Its Means of Defense. — Its special Organization. — The 

 Lion and the Giraffe. — The Giraffe known to the Ancients. — Zehra and Quaggas: Their 

 Abundance in Southern Africa. — Distinction Between the Quagga and the Zebra. — Capacity 

 for Domestication. — Their Union for Defense. — The Gnu, the Quagga, and the Zebra. — The 

 Zebra the Tiger-Horse of the Ancients. — The African Boar. — The Malayan Babirusa. — 

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