VOLUME XIV

BOSTON
HALL AND LOCKE COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

CONTENTS

PAGE
[List of Illustrations][xiii]
[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 Notes][396]
[Suggestions for Supplementary Reading][398]

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].”

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