CONTENTS.
Reading edition
CHAP. PAGE
Introduction i
BOOK I. MAMMALS.
I. Apes, Monkeys, and Lemurs 1
II. The Cat Tribe 33
III. The Fossa, Civets, and Ichneumons 74
IV. The Hyænas and Aard-wolf 80
V. The Dog Family 84
VI. The Bears 114
VII. The Smaller Carnivora 125
VIII. Marine Carnivora: The Seals, Sea-lions, and Walrus 136
IX. The Rodents, or Gnawing Animals 146
X. The Bats and Insect-eating Mammals 165
XI. The Elephant, Tapir, Hyrax, and Rhinoceros 172
XII. The Horse Tribe 189
XIII. The Hollow-horned Ruminants: Oxen, Bison, Buffaloes, and Musk-ox 207
XIV. The Sheep and Goats 221
XV. The Antelopes 239
XVI. The Giraffe and Okapi 264
XVII. The Deer Tribe 271
XVIII. The Camel Tribe and the Chevrotains 302
XIX. The Pig and Hippopotamus 310
XX. The Dugong, Manatees, Whales, Porpoises, and Dolphins 327
XXI. The Sloths, Ant-eaters, and Armadillos 336
XXII. Marsupials and Monotremes 344
COLOURED PLATES.
Ocelot from Central America Facing page i
The largest Gorilla ever captured " " 8
African Lion and Lioness " " 33
Wolf from Central Europe " " 65
Himalayan Black Bear " " 97
Raccoon " " 129
Chapman's Zebras " " 161
Highland Cattle " " 193
Female Kudu " " 225
Northern Giraffe " " 257
Fallow Deer " " 289
A Hippopotamus gaping " " 321
The Great Kangaroo " " 353
ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT.
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Pekin Deer in summer dress i
Negro Boy and Apes i
Skeletons of Man and Gorilla ii
Sea-swallows iii
African Leopard iv
East African Giraffe iv
Flying-fox v
Dolphins v
A Happy Family vi
Elephants vi
Giant Tortoise vii
A group of Crocodilians vii
Somali Zebras viii
Sun-fish viii
A young Chimpanzee (Anger, Pleasure, Fear) 1
Arabian Baboon 1
"Jenny," the well-known Chimpanzee at the Zoo 2
A young Chimpanzee 3
Head of male Gorilla 4
A male Gorilla 5
Young Orang-utans 6
Baby Orang-utans at play 7
Two baby Orang-utans. The tug-of-war 8
White-handed Gibbon 9
Hoolock Gibbon 9
Head of Proboscis Monkey 10
Cross-bearing Langur and young 11
Male Himalayan Langur 12
Gelada Baboons at home 13
Mantled Guereza 14
Diana Monkey 15
Barbary Ape 15
Rhesus Monkey 16
Rhesus Monkey and Sooty Mangabey 16
Grey-cheeked Mangabey 17
Chinese Macaque 17
Grivet Monkey 17
Bonnet Monkey and Arabian Baboon 17
Rhesus Monkeys 18
Orange Snub-nosed Monkey 18
Pig-tailed Monkey 19
Chacma Baboon 20
A young male Chacma Baboon 21
Head of male Mandrill 22
Brown Capuchin 22
Drill 22
Red Howler Monkey 23
A Spider Monkey 23
Patas Monkey 24
Wanderoo Monkey 24
Common Squirrel Monkey 25
Black-eared Marmoset 26
Humboldt's Woolly Monkey 26
Pig-tailed Monkey catching a fly 27
Ringed-tailed Lemur 28
A Dwarf Lemur 28
Black Lemur 29
Coquerel's Lemur 29
Ruffed Lemur 29
Garnett's Galago 30
Maholi Galago 30
Slender Loris 31
Slow Loris 31
Tarsier 32
Head of Aye-aye 32
African Lion 33
An Unwilling Pupil 33
Lioness aroused 34
Algerian Lioness 35
A Foster-mother 36
A performing Lion 36
Lioness and Cub 36
A young Lioness 37
A Happy Family 38
A cross between Lion and Tigress 38
A hungry Lion 39
Lioness and Tiger 40
Tigress 41
Tiger Cub 42
A Royal Tiger 42
A Tiger before sleeping 43
A half-grown Tiger Cub 44
Tigers in Italy 45
A Leopard-puma Hybrid 46
Leopards 46
A young Leopard 47
Snow-leopard, or Ounce 48
Cheeta 49
Jaguar 50
Puma 50
Female Puma 51
Ocelot 52
Ocelot from Central America 53
Clouded Leopard 54
Fishing-cat 54
Marbled Cat 54
Golden Cat 55
Pampas-cat 56
Eyra Cat 56
Bay Cat 56
Kaffir Cat 57
African Chaus, or Jungle-cat 57
Serval 58
Male Serval 59
Serval climbing 60
European Wild Cat 61
Scotch Wild Cats 62
Lynx 63
European Lynx 64
Canadian Lynx 64
Cheetas 65
A Cheeta hooded 66
A Cheeta on the look-out 67
Domestic Cats:
White Short-haired 68
Long-haired White 68
Mackerel-marked Tabby 69
Cat carrying Kitten 69
Blue Long-haired, or Persian 69
Smoke and Blue Long-haired 69
Orange Tabby 69
Long-haired Tabby 69
Silver Persian 69
Smoke Long-haired, or Persian 69
Short-haired Blue 70
Silver Tabby 70
Short-haired Tabby 71
Long-haired Orange 71
Manx 72
Siamese 72
Blue Long-haired, or Persian 72
Silver Persians 72
Long-haired Chinchilla 73
The "Bun" or "Ticked" Short-haired Cat 73
Fossa 74
Large Indian Civet 74
African Civet 75
African Civet 76
Sumatran Civet 76
Genet 77
Two-spotted Palm-civet 78
Masked Palm-civet 78
Binturong 79
Mongoose 79
Meercat 80
Spotted Hyæna 81
Spotted Hyæna 81
Striped Hyæna 82
Aard-wolf 82
Young Grey Wolf 83
A growing Cub 84
Wolf Cubs 85
White Wolf 86
Prairie-wolf, or Coyote 86
The Wolf with privy paw 87
Russian Wolf 88
A Wolf of the Carpathians 89
Indian Wolf 90
Wolf's head 90
Russian Wolf 91
North African Jackal 92
Indian Jackal 92
Maned Wolf 93
Turkish Jackal 93
Wild Dog 94
Dingo 94
Dingoes 95
Cape Hunting-dog 96
Fox Cubs 97
Mountain-fox 98
Leicestershire Fox 98
Too difficult! 99
Arctic Fox (In summer; Changing his coat; In winter) 100
Fennec-fox 100
Domestic Dogs:
Stag-hound Puppies 101
Greyhound 102
Retriever 103
Blood-hound 104
English Setter 104
Smooth-coated Saint Bernard 104
Great Dane 105
Dachshund 105
Dalmatians 106
Newfoundland 106
Bull-dogs 107
Old English Sheep-dog 108
Mastiff 108
Deer-hound 109
Pointer 109
Skye Terrier 109
Corded Poodle 109
Pomeranian 109
Scottish Terrier 109
Maltese Toy Terrier 109
Butterfly-dog 109
Her Majesty Queen Alexandra, with Chow and Japanese Spaniels 110
Sand-dog 110
Pug and Pekinese Spaniel 111
Fox-terrier 111
Blenheim and Prince Charles Spaniels 112
Pariah Puppies 112
Common Brown Bear 113
An inviting attitude 114
Three performing Bears 114
European Brown Bear 115
Syrian Bear 116
Large Russian Brown Bear 116
American Black Bear 117
Young Syrian Bear from the Caucasus 118
A Brown Bear in search of insects 119
Polar Bears 120
Two Polar Bears and a Brown Bear 121
Polar Bear 122
Half-grown Polar Bears 123
The Ice-bear's couch 124
Common Raccoon 125
Raccoon 125
Great Panda 126
Kinkajou 127
Young Otters 127
Two tame Otters 128
Sea-otter 128
A Skunk 129
A Badger in the water 129
European Badger 130
Ratel 131
Pine-marten 132
Polecat 133
Himalayan Weasel 133
Common Stoat (In summer and winter coats) 134
Glutton 134
Californian Sea-lions, or Eared Seals 135
Steller's Sea-lion 136
Sea-lion 137
Sea-lion 138
Female Walrus 139
Male Walrus 140
Walrus and Sea-lion 141
Grey Seal 142
Grey Seal 143
Harp-seal 144
Sea-elephant 145
Capybara 146
Flying-squirrel 146
Flying-squirrel 147
Dorsal Squirrel from Central America 148
Asiatic Chipmunks 148
Red-footed Ground-squirrel 149
Black Fox-squirrel 149
Long-tailed Marmot 150
Prairie-dogs, or Marmots 151
American Beaver 152
Beaver 153
Beaver 154
Musk-rat 154
Gambian Pouched Rat 155
Pocket-gopher 156
Long-eared Jerboa 157
Cape Jumping-hare 157
Octodont 158
Coypu 158
Short-tailed Hutia 159
Porcupine 159
Porcupine 160
Viscacha 160
Chinchilla 161
Agutis 161
Paca, or Spotted Cavy 162
Pacas, or Spotted Cavies 162
Patagonian Cavy 163
Wood-hare 163
Wild Rabbits 164
Australian Fruit-bat, or "Flying-fox" 165
Australian Fruit-bat 166
Tube-nosed Fruit-bat 166
Pipistrelle Bat 167
Leaf-nosed Bat 167
Cobego 168
Cobego 169
Cobego asleep 170
Three baby Hedgehogs 170
Common Mole 171
Golden Mole 171
A fine Tusker 172
A young Indian Elephant 173
The Chief of Chiengmai's Carriage 174
Timber-elephants 175
Female Indian Elephant dragging teak 176
Indian Elephants bathing 177
African Elephant 178
Male African Elephant drinking 179
Malayan Tapir 180
Common American Tapir 181
Hairy-eared Sumatran Rhinoceros 182
Great Indian Rhinoceros 183
Great Indian Rhinoceros 184
Black African Rhinoceroses 185
One of the same Rhinoceroses dead 185
Rhinoceros bathing 186
Black African Rhinoceros 187
Sumatran Rhinoceros 188
Mountain-zebra 189
Grevy's Zebra 190
Burchell's Zebra at home 191
The Hon. Walter Rothschild's team of Zebras 192
Burchell's Zebra, Chapman's variety 193
Mare and Foal of Burchell's Zebra 194
Burchell's Zebra 194
Zebras on Table Mountain 195
Quagga 195
Baluchi Wild Ass 196
Male Kiang 197
Yearling Arab Colts 198
Arab Mare 199
Arab Mares and Foals 200
Percheron Horse 201
Hackney and Foal 201
Ladas 202
Florizel II. 202
Shetland Pony and Foal 203
Champion Shire Stallion 203
Shire Mare and Foal 204
Welsh Pony 204
Polo-pony 205
Donkey 205
Egyptian Donkeys 206
Mules 206
English Park-cattle 207
English Park Bull 208
Calf of English Park-cattle 208
Jersey Cow 209
Spanish Cattle 209
Young Gaur 210
Cow Gayal 211
Indian Humped Bull 212
Indian Humped Cattle 213
Domesticated Yak 214
American bull Bison 215
European Bison 216
American Bison 217
Cape Buffalo 218
Domesticated Indian Buffalo 218
A pair of Anoas 219
Young bull Musk-ox 220
Young Barbary Sheep 221
Siberian Argali 222
Barbary Sheep 223
Barbary Sheep 223
Burhal Wild Sheep 224
Punjab Sheep 225
Fat-tailed Sheep 225
Four-horned Sheep 226
South Down Sheep 226
Merino Rams 227
Black-faced Mountain-sheep 228
Leicester Ewe 228
Cross-bred Sheep 229
Lonk Ram 230
Welsh Ewes 230
Female Angora Goat 231
Angora Ram 231
British Goat 232
Female Toggenburg Goat 233
Stud Toggenburg Goat 233
Schwartzals Goat 234
Male Alpine Ibex 235
Young male Alpine Ibex 235
Nubian Goat 236
Italian Goat 237
Rocky Mountain Goat 238
Himalayan Tahr and young 238
Bubalino Hartebeest 239
Biesbok 240
White-tailed Gnu and Calf 240
A cow Brindled Gnu 241
Red-flanked Duiker 241
Klipspringer 242
Sing-sing Waterbuck 243
Mountain Reedbuck 244
Male Impala, or Palla 244
Male Saiga Antelopes 245
Arabian Gazelle 246
Goitred Gazelles from Mesopotamia 247
Speke's Gazelle 248
Gazelles from Egypt 248
Red-fronted Gazelle 249
Red-fronted Gazelle (another view) 249
Male Springbuck 250
Sable Antelope 251
Roan Antelope 252
Male of Grant's Gazelle 252
Group of Beisa Oryx 253
White Oryx 254
Beisa Oryx 254
Gerenuk 255
Female Nilgai 256
Addax 256
A pair of young Prongbucks 257
Female Goral 258
Harnessed Antelope 258
Male Kudu 259
Eland 260
Eland Cows 261
Bull Eland 262
The Southern Giraffe 263
Southern Giraffe lying down 264
Male Southern Giraffe 265
A Giraffe grazing 266
A Giraffe browsing 267
Male and female Giraffes 268
The Okapi of the Congo Forest 269
Head of Okapi 270
Scandinavian Reindeer 271
Woodland Caribou 272
Immature Scandinavian Elk 273
Female American Elk, or Moose 274
Park Red Deer 275
An Asiatic Wapiti 276
American Wapiti 277
American Wapiti 278
American Wapiti 279
Altai Wapiti 280
Manchurian Wapiti calling 281
An Axis Hind 282
A stag Axis, or Indian Spotted Deer 283
A Spotted Oriental Deer 284
A young Fallow Buck of the Brown Breed 285
A Sambar Stag 286
Formosan Sika Stag 287
Javan Rusa Stag 287
Hog-deer 288
Young male Swamp-deer 289
Indian Muntjac 290
Young male Chinese Water-deer 290
Male Siberian Roe 291
Female Siberian Roe 291
Siberian Roebuck 292
Female European Roe Deer 293
Père David's Deer 294
Group of Virginian Deer (two bucks, four does) 295
A Mule-deer Fawn 296
Virginian Deer 297
Mule-deer Stag 298
Young Marsh-deer 299
Young Himalayan Musk-deer 300
The Camel-plough, used in Algiers 301
A White Camel 302
Arabian Camel 302
A Camel 303
A string of Camels near Port Said 303
Head of Bactrian Camel 304
An old male Bactrian Camel 305
Bactrian Camel 306
Young Bactrian Camel 306
Guanaco 307
Llamas 308
Llama 309
Alpaca 309
A Domesticated Sow and her Progeny 310
Wild Boar 311
Diving-pigs 312
Javan Wild Pig 313
Male and female Babirusa 313
Wart-hog 314
Ælian's Wart-hog 314
Head of male Wart-hog 315
Collared Peccary 316
A young Collared Peccary 317
A three-year-old Hippopotamus 318
Hippopotamus drinking 319
Hippopotamus bathing 320
Baby Hippopotamus, aged six months 321
Dental operations on a Hippopotamus 322, 323
Female Hippopotamuses 324
A Hippopotamus Family—father, mother, and young 324
Hippopotamus 325
Male and female Hippopotamuses 326
Dugong 327
American Manatee 328
Narwhal 329
Grampus, or Killer 330
Short-beaked River-dolphin 331
Sowerby's Beaked Whale 332
Common Porpoise 333
Elliott's Dolphin 334
Risso's Dolphin 334
Bottle-nosed Dolphin 335
Heavyside's Dolphin 335
Northern Two-toed Sloth 336
Three-toed Sloth 337
The Great Ant-eater 338
Tamandua Ant-eater 339
Two-toed Ant-eater 340
Weasel-headed Armadillo 341
Hairy-rumped Armadillo 341
Peba Armadillo 341
Kapplers' Armadillo 341
Cape Aard-vark 342
The Great Grey Kangaroo 343
Silver-grey Kangaroo 344
Black-striped Wallaby 345
Bennett's Wallaby and the Great Grey Kangaroo 345
Albino Red Kangaroos 346
Tasmanian Wallaby 347
Albino Red-bellied Wallaby 348
Rock-wallaby 349
Parry's Wallaby 350
Parry's Wallaby 350
Foot of Tree-kangaroo 351
Brown Tree-kangaroo 352
Tree-kangaroos 353
Gaimard's Rat-kangaroo 354
Rat-kangaroo from New South Wales 354
Koala, or Australian Native Bear, and Cub 355
Koala, or Australian Native Bear 356
Koala, or Australian Native Bear 357
Squirrel-like Flying-phalanger of Victoria 358
Larger Flying-phalanger 359
Lesser Flying-phalanger 360
Pygmy Flying-phalanger 361
Common Grey Opossum, or Phalanger 362
Australian Grey Opossum, or Phalanger 363
Front view of Grey Opossum, or Phalanger 364
Profile view of Grey Opossum, or Phalanger 364
Ring-tailed Opossum, or Phalanger, and nest 365
Spotted Cuscus 366
Common Wombat 367
Hairy-nosed Wombat 368
Common Wombat 369
Long-nosed Australian Bandicoot 370
Rabbit-bandicoot 371
Pouched Mole 372
Under surface of Pouched Mole 372
Tasmanian Wolf 373
Tasmanian Wolf 373
Tasmanian Devil 374
Spotted Dasyures, or Australian Native Cats 375
Brush-tailed Pouched Mouse, or Phascogale 376
Banded Ant-eater 377
Yapock, or Water-opossum 378
Young Opossum (natural size) 379
Woolly American Opossum 380
Common or Virginian Opossum 381
Echidna, or Ant-eating Porcupine 382
Tasmanian Echidna, or Porcupine Ant-eater 383
Duck-billed Platypus 384
N.B.—The photograph of dolphins on page v was inadvertently attributed to Mr. F. G. Aflalo. The name of the photographer should have been Mr. T. Limberg, who kindly gave permission for his capital snap-shot to be reproduced in these pages.
Photo by the Duchess of Bedford] [Woburn.
PEKIN DEER IN SUMMER DRESS.
An example of the white-spotted type of coloration so common among herbivorous mammals.