CONTENTS
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List of Illustrationsxiii
Animals, Birds, and Fishes By David Starr Jordan.xv
The Wonder of Life By Professor T. H. Huxley.1
Life Growth;—Frogs By Margaret Warner Morley.10
The Man-Like Apes By Professor T. H. Huxley.15
Some Strange Nurseries By Grant Allen.46
How Animals Spend the Winter By W. S. Blatchley.69
Birds’ Nests By John Burroughs.88
Birds in Their Relation to Agriculture By Lawrence Bruner.121
The Scissor Beak By Charles Darwin.143
The Condor By Charles Darwin.146
The Umbrella Bird By Sir A. R. Wallace.153
Humming Birds By Thomas G. Belt, F.G.S.155
The Foundations of a Wonderful City By Maurice Maeterlinck.158
Wasps By Thomas G. Belt, F.G.S.175
A Wasp and Its Prey By G. W. And E. G. Peckham.180
Leaf-Cutting Ants By Thomas G. Belt, F.G.S.190
Some Wonderful Spiders By Charles Darwin.197
What I Saw in an Ant’s Nest By Andrew Wilson.201
The Wild Llama By Charles Darwin.228
Bats By W. S. Dallas, F.G.S.232
How Snakes Eat By Catherine C. Hopley.258
What Worms Do By Charles Darwin.264
Two Fops Among the Fishes By W. S. Blatchley.284
Sea Slugs and Cuttle-fish By Charles Darwin.292
The Cow Fish By Sir Alfred Russell Wallace.295
Old Rattler and the King Snake By David Starr Jordan.297
The Story of a Strange Land By David Starr Jordan.303
The Color of Animals By Sir John Lubbock Bart.315
Protective Resemblances in Spiders By E. G. Peckham.343
The Bath of the Birds By Richard Jefferies.369
The Loon By Henry D. Thoreau.378
The Dartmoor Ponies By Arabella R. Buckley.384
Biographical Notes396
Suggestions for Supplementary Reading398
NOTE.
The publishers’ acknowledgments are due to Miss Margaret Warner Morley and Messrs. A. C. McClurg & Co. for permission to use “Life Growth,—Frogs”; to Mr. W. S. Blatchley and The Popular Science Monthly for “How Animals Spend the Winter” and “Two Fops Among the Fishes”; to Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. for “Birds’ Nests,” by John Burroughs; to Mr. L. Bruner and the Nebraska Ornithologists’ Union for “Birds in Their Relation to Agriculture”; to G. W. and E. G. Peckham for “A Wasp and Its Prey” and “Protective Resemblances in Spiders”; to President David Starr Jordan and The Popular Science Monthly for “Old Rattler and the King Snake”; to President Jordan and A. C. McClurg & Co. for “The Story of a Strange Land.”