LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Giraffes ' PAGE Fight between an Elephant and a Tiger frontispiece A young Chimpanzee 14 _ The Gorilla : : 19 The White-collared Mangabey 38 The Red-faced Spider ro 45 Marmosets . 5 49 The Brown Mouse-Lemur 50 Skeleton of Bat. . : 55 The Collared Fruit-Bat . 57 Head of Long-eared Bat 59 Long-eared Bats F 60 Long-eared Bat sleeping 61 Barbastelle Bat walking . 62 Head of Vampire Bat 63 Water Shrews 65 Skeleton of a Lion 69 Lions 5 71 Lioness and Cubs 75 Leopards 78 A Puma 81 Eskimo Dogs 90 A Group of Fennecs . 92 The Polar Bear 95 The Grizzly Bear . 97 Grizzly Bear in a Aap 99 Black Bear IOI The Otter 103 The Walrus 105 The Northern Sea-Bear . . 109 The Russian Biying Pai » 115 Beavers Sly Field Voles . 119 Harvest Mice I2T The Porcupine . SIpl22) The Narwhal . 128 A School of Porpoises . 131 The American Bison - 135 The Musk Ox . . 136 The Alpine Ibex . 138 The Cabul Markhor . . 140 Head of Gemsbok. » 141 Water-Buck . 142 » 145 PAGE Reindeer . - 147 The Moose » 149 Camels . I51 Llamas . : - 153 The Hog-Deer of Celebes Beeesee ici The Common Hippopotamus . 157 Skull of the Hippopotamus . 158 Skeleton of the Horse . 160 Indian Rhinoceros - 163 The Hyrax or Coney - 168 The Great Ant-cater . . 176 Opossum with its Young . 181 Kangaroos . 183 The Duckmole . 185 Lawes’s Echidna . 187 The Ostrich . : . 188 Skeleton of a Bird . 190 Breastbone of Owl . I9QI Parts of a Bird . . 192 A Bird’s Leg . 193 The Dipper Tals The Nightingale =. 197, The Blackcap . 198 The Reed Warbler « 199 Shooting Birds of Paradise . 203 Weaver Bird and Nest . 204 The Nightjar. 205 The Sword-bill Humming- Bird 208 The Concave Hornbill . 207 The Griffon Vulture owe TT The Kiwi. ; . 217 Head of a Crocodile . 220 Head of a Gharial . 220 Head of an Alligator A221 The Tiger-snake of Australia . 223 Skeleton of a Python . 224 The Rattlesnake . 226 The Cobra di Capello o5 227, The Moloch Lizard . 229 The Matamata . 232 Transformations of the hi rog . 237 The Nest of the Stickleback . 245 The Hammer-headed Shark . 253