LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Pampas Grass : Indians on the look-out for strayed

Horses ....... Frontispiece

Coypú .......... 12

Puma killed by Cow ....... 39

Puma attacking Jaguar ..... To face 48

Armadillo killing Snake ....... 72

Wrestler Frog . . . . . . . . .77

Ceratrophrys ornata ........ 80

Didelphys azaree and young . . . . . . 102

Pampa Sheep ......... 109

Skunk and Dog . . . . . . . .123

Storm, of Dragon-flies ..... To face, 132

Ixodes; before and after a blood diet . . . .142

Fire-wood gatherer and Bird-fly .. . . . .147

A Bee's Kevengo . . . . . . . .165

Mygale fusca, threatening ....... 191

Loddigesia Mirabilis . . . . . . . .215

Crested Screamer . . . . . . . . 224

Some Woodhewers' beaks . . . . . . .239

Dance of Ypecaha Rails ....... 267

Wing-display of Jacanas ....... 268

Dance of Spur-winged Lapwings ..... 270

White-banded Mocking-bird ...... 277

Vizcachas ......... 290

The Dying Huanaco ...... To face 318

Gaucho . . . . . . , , . . 350

A lost Humming-bird ....... 367

Small Spine-tail and Nest ,...,. 371