Fossils regarded as sports of nature,[111]; qualifications of a successful collector,[112]; chances of collecting,[114]; excavation of fossils,[115]; strengthening fossils for shipment,[117]; great size of some specimens,[118]; the preparation of fossils, 119; mistakes of anatomists,[120]; reconstruction of Triceratops,[121]; distinguishing characters of bones,[122]; the skeleton a problem in mechanics,[124]; clothing the bones with flesh,[127]; the covering of animals,[127]; outside ornamentation, 129; probabilities in the covering of animals,[130]; impressions of extinct animals,[131]; mistaken inferences from bones of Mammoth,[133]; coloring of large land animals, 134; color markings of young animals,[136]; references,[137].
VIII. FEATHERED GIANTS
Legend of the Moa,[139]; our knowledge of the Moas,[141]; some Moas wingless,[142]; deposits of Moa bones,[143]; legend of the Roc,[144]; discovery of Æpyornis,[145]; large-sounding names,[146]; eggs of great birds,[147]; the Patagonian Phororhacos,[149]; the huge Brontornis,[150]; development of giant birds,[153]; distribution of flightless birds,[154]; relation between flightlessness and size,[156]; references,[156].
IX. THE ANCESTRY OF THE HORSE
North America in the Eocene age,[160]; appearance of early horses,[163]; early domestication of the horse,[165]; the toes of horses,[166]; Miocene horses small,[167]; evidence of genealogy of the horse,[170]; meaning of abnormalities,[170]; changes in the climate and animals of the West,[174]; references, 176.
X. THE MAMMOTH
The story of the killing of the Mammoth,[177]; derivation of the word "mammoth,"[178]; mistaken ideas as to size of the Mammoth,[179]; size of Mammoth and modern elephants, 180; finding of an entire Mammoth,[182]; birthplace of the Mammoth,[184]; beliefs concerning its bones,[185]; the range of the animal,[186]; theories concerning the extinction of the Mammoth,[188]; Man and Mammoth,[189]; origin of the Alaskan Live Mammoth Story,[190]; traits of the Innuits, 192; an entire Mammoth recently found,[194]; references, 195.
XI. THE MASTODON
Differences between Mastodon and Mammoth,[198]; affinities of the Mastodon,[200]; vestigial structures,[201]; distribution of American Mastodon,[203]; first noticed in North America, 204; thought to be carnivorous,[206]; Koch's Missourium, 208; former abundance of Mastodons,[209]; appearance of the animal,[210]; its size,[211]; was man contemporary with Mastodon?[213]; the Lenape stone,[215]; legend of the big buffalo,[216]; references,[218].