ILLUSTRATIONS 
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Nests of Baya Sparrow (Ploceus bay a) . . . Frontispiece 
Trap-door Spider and Nest Titlepage 
Fortress of the Mole 2 
The Rabbit Warren 17 
Canada Pouched Rat [Plan of Burrow) .... 20 
Polar Bear 21 
Pichiciago 23 
Aard Vark 26 
Sand Martins 33 
Puffin 38 
Pholas in Wood— Lithodomus — Razor Shell — Holes of 
Pholas in Rock 58 
Shipworm .61 
Nest of Trap-door Spider (from a Specimen in the collection 
of Lieut. -Col. C. J. Cox) . .... 69 
Myrmeleon — Ampulex — Scolia 80 
Bombus Terrestris— Bombus Lapidarius .... 83 
Cocoons of Scarab^us and Goliath 95 
Scolytus 103 
The Tailor Birds 123 
Ptilotus Sonorus — Entomophila Picta— Entomophila Al- 
bogularis — Sericornis Citreogularis— Origma Ru- 
BRICATA .128 
Swallow Dictum 134 
Lanceolate Honey-eater ( Plectorhynch us lanceolatus) . .136 
Little Hermit (Pkaethornis eremita ) . . . . . „ 138 
Sawbill Humming Bird — Brazilian Wood Nymph — White- 
sided Hill Star . 140 
Crested Cassique — Baltimore Oriole 143 
Tatua Morio 152 
Nectarinia— Myrapetra 155 
