The Living Animals of the World Vol 2 of 2
A Popular Natural History
C. J. Cornish, Harry Johnston, others, Frederick Courteney Selous, Louis Wain
The Living Animals of the World Vol 2 of 2 A Popular Natural History
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Book II. Birds.
I. The ostrich and its kindred.
II. The game-birds and rails.
III. Pigeons and sand-grouse.
IV. Auks, gulls, and plovers.
V. Bustards and cranes.
VI. Grebes and divers, penguins, and tube-nosed birds.
VII. Storks, herons, and pelican tribe.
VIII. Screamers, ducks, geese, and swans.
IX. Birds of prey and owls.
X. Night-jars, swifts, and humming-birds.
XI. Parrots, cuckoos, and plantain-eaters.
XII. Rollers, kingfishers, hornbills, and hoopoes.
XIII. Bee-eaters, motmots, todies, colies, and trogons.
XIV. Toucans, honey-guides, jacamars and puff-birds, barbets and woodpeckers.
XV. The perching-birds.
XVI. Larks, titmice, honey-eaters, and their kindred.
XVII. Shrikes, thrushes and their allies, swallows, lyre-birds, chatterers, broad-bills, etc.
Book III. Reptiles and Amphibians.
I. Crocodiles and alligators.
II. Tortoises and turtles.
III. Lizards.
IV. Chamæleons and tuatera.
V. Snakes.
VI. Frogs and toads.
VII. Newts and salamanders.
Book IV. Fishes.
I. Lung-fishes and chimæras.
II. The perch family.
III. Scaly-fins, red mullets, sea-breams, scorpion-fishes, slime-heads, tassel-fish, meagres, and sword-fishes.
IV. Hair-tails, horse-mackerels, sea-bats, dories, mackerels, sucking-fishes, weavers, frog-fishes, angler-fishes, bull-heads, and gurnards.
V. Lump-suckers, gobies, blennies, barracudas, grey mullets, sticklebacks and their allies, garpike, and flying-fishes.
VI. The wrasse-like fishes.
VII. Pipe-fishes, sea-horses, globe-fishes, sun-fishes, and their allies.
VIII. The cod family.
IX. Cave-fishes, sand-eels and their allies, and flat-fishes.
X. Eels and cat-fishes.
XI. The carp family.
XII. Pikes, arapaimas, beaked salmon, and scopelids.
XIII. The salmon family.
XIV. The herring and its kindred.
XV. Bony pike, bow-fin, sturgeon, reed-fish, and bichir.
XVI. Sharks and rays.
Book V. Jointed animals.
I. The crab and scorpion groups.
II. Insects.
Book VI. Shell-fish, Lamp-shells, Sea-urchins, Star-fishes, Moss-animals, Worms, Corals, Jelly-fishes, and Sponges.
I. Shell-fish, or molluscs.
II. Lamp-shells.
III. Star-fishes, sea-urchins, etc.
IV. Moss-animals.
V. Worms.
VI. Corals, sea-anemones, and jelly-fishes.
VII. Sponges and animalcules.
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