Cassell's Natural History, Vol. 3 (of 6)

THE BEE-EATERS--Their Brilliant Plumage--Colonel Irby’s Account of the Bird in Spain--Shot for Fashion’s sake--THE MOTMOTS--Appearance--Mr. Waterton on the Houtou--Curious Habit...

THE EAGLES--THE BEARDED EAGLE, OR LÄMMERGEIER--A Visit to their Nest--Habits--A Little Girl carried off alive--Habits in Greece--Appearance--Von Tschudi’s and Captain Hutton’s D...

THE CUCKOOS--THE BUSH CUCKOOS--THE LARK-HEELED CUCKOOS, OR COUCALS--THE COMMON CUCKOO--Its Characteristics--Mrs. Blackburn’s Account of a Young Cuckoo Ejecting a Tenant--Breedin...

Character of the Order--A well-defined Group--Teeth Evidence--Kinds and Number of Teeth--The Incisors: their Growth, Renewal, and Composition--The Molars--The Gnawing Process--S...

THE MOUSE-LIKE RODENTS--MYOXIDÆ--Characteristics--THE DORMOUSE--Description--Habits--Activity--Food--Winter Condition--THE LOIR--THE GARDEN DORMOUSE--LOPHIOMYIDÆ--How the Family...

THE JACAMARS--THE PUFF BIRDS--THE KINGFISHERS--Characters--THE COMMON KINGFISHER--Distribution--Its Cry--Habits--After its Prey--Its own Nest-builder--Mr. Rowley’s Note on the S...

The Three Divisions of the Class Aves--ANATOMY OF A BIRD--The Skeleton--Distinctive Features--Peculiar Bone Character--The Skull--Difference between the Skull of Birds and that...

HYSTRICIDÆ, THE PORCUPINES--Conversion of Hairs into Spines--Skull--Dentition--Tail--Sub-families--The True Porcupines--The Tree Porcupines--THE COMMON PORCUPINE--Distribution--...

Characteristics of the Order--The Sub-orders--ZYGODACTYLÆ--THE PARROTS--Their Talking Powers--Sections of the Family--THE GREAT PALM COCKATOO--THE PYGMY PARROTS--THE AMAZON PARR...

THE PHALANGER FAMILY--THE KOALA--Habits--Characteristics--THE CUSCUS--THE VULPINE PHALANGER--THE DORMOUSE PHALANGER--Habits--Remarkable Characters--THE FLYING PHALANGERS--Its Fl...

The Birds of Prey--Distinctive Characters--The Cere--How the Birds of Prey are Divided--Difference between a Hawk, an Owl, and an Osprey--The three Sub-orders of the Accipitres-...

THE OSPREY--Distribution--Food--How it Seizes its Prey--Nesting Communities--STRIGES, or OWLS--Distinctions between Hawks and Owls--Owls in Bird-lore and Superstition--Families...

Ruminantia--Chewing the Cud--Metaphorical Expression--The Complicated Stomach: Paunch, Honey-comb Bag, Manyplies, Reed--Order of Events in Rumination--Feet and Dentition of Rumi...

THE GREAT KANGAROO--Captain Cook and the Great Kangaroo--Habitat--Appearance of the Animal--Marsupials separated from the other Mammalian Orders, and why (Footnote)--Gestation a...

The MUNTJACS--Distribution--Characters--THE INDIAN MUNTJAC, OR KIDANG--Hunting--THE CHINESE MUNTJAC--Habits--DAVID’S MUNTJAC--“Shanyang”--THE ROEBUCK--THE CHINESE WATER DEER--Pe...

THE CAPE ANT-EATER--The Cage at “the Zoo”--Appearance of the Animal--Its Prey--The Ant-hills--How the Orycteropus obtains its Food--Place in the Order--Teeth--Skull--Tongue--Int...

SPALACIDÆ, OR MOLE RATS--Characteristics of the Family--Habits--Food--THE MOLE RAT--Distribution--Description--THE CHESTNUT MOLE RAT--THE NAKED MOLE RAT--THE STRAND MOLE RAT--De...

THE NYL-GHAU--Description--Habits--THE MUSK OX--Difficulties in associating it--Distribution--Habits--THE OX--Chillingham Wild Cattle--Their Habits--Domestic Cattle--The Colling...

The South American Forests--Discovery of the Sloth--How it derived its Name--Peculiarities of Dentition--Food--Fore Limbs and Fingers--Hind Limbs and Heel--Other Modifications o...

The Deer Tribe--Distinguishing Characters--Exceptions to the rule--The Musk (Deer) and Chinese Water Deer--Other Characters of the Cervidæ--Antlers, their Nature, Growth, and Sh...

The Armour-plates--How the Shields are formed--Their connection with the Body--Description of the Animals--Mode of Walking--Diet--Skeleton--Adaptation of their Limbs for Burrowi...

THE STEINBOKS: KLIPSPRINGER, OUREBI, STEINBOK, GRYSBOK, MADOQUA--THE BUSH-BUCKS--Appearance--Distinctive Marks--THE FOUR-HORNED ANTELOPES--Peculiarity in the Chikarah--THE WATER...

Why the Monotremata are formed into a Sub-order--The lowest of the Mammalian Class--THE PORCUPINE OR LONG-SPINED ECHIDNA--An Ant-eater, but not an Edentate--Its Correct Name--De...

THE BANDED GYMNOGENE--Habits--Its Movable Tarsi--THE HARRIERS--Distinctive Features--THE MARSH HARRIER--Habits--Its Thievish Propensities--THE HARRIER-HAWKS--Colonel Greyson’s A...

Families of Rodents represented by Fossil Remains--State of the “Record of the Rocks”--THE SCIURIDÆ--Sciurine Genera now Extinct--No Fossil ANOMALURIDÆ and HAPLODONTIDÆ--ISCHYRO...

Prehistoric Opossums--Description of the Animal--Their Teeth--Habits--THE COMMON OPOSSUM--Appearance--Use of its Tail--Food--The Young--How they are Reared--D’AZARA’S OPOSSUM--T...

The study of birds is almost an instinct in an Englishman: from peasant to noble, an innate affection for the feathered songsters seems to prevail; so that whether it be in a st...

THE BEE-EATERS--Their Brilliant Plumage--Colonel Irby’s Account of the Bird in Spain--Shot for Fashion’s sake--THE MOTMOTS--Appearance--Mr. Waterton on the Houtou--Curious Habit...

THE MOUSE-LIKE RODENTS--MYOXIDÆ--Characteristics--THE DORMOUSE--Description--Habits--Activity--Food--Winter Condition--THE LOIR--THE GARDEN DORMOUSE--LOPHIOMYIDÆ--How the Family...

THE JACAMARS--THE PUFF BIRDS--THE KINGFISHERS--Characters--THE COMMON KINGFISHER--Distribution--Its Cry--Habits--After its Prey--Its own Nest-builder--Mr. Rowley’s Note on the S...

The Deer Tribe--Distinguishing Characters--Exceptions to the rule--The Musk (Deer) and Chinese Water Deer--Other Characters of the Cervidæ--Antlers, their Nature, Growth, and Sh...

The Birds of Prey--Distinctive Characters--The Cere--How the Birds of Prey are Divided--Difference between a Hawk, an Owl, and an Osprey--The Three Sub-orders of the Accipitres-...

THE MUNTJACS--Distribution--Characters--THE INDIAN MUNTJAC, OR KIDANG--Hunting--THE CHINESE MUNTJAC--Habits--DAVID’S MUNTJAC--“Shanyang”--THE ROEBUCK--THE CHINESE WATER DEER--Pe...

THE CUCKOOS--THE BUSH CUCKOOS--THE LARK-HEELED CUCKOOS, OR COUCALS--THE COMMON CUCKOO--Its Characteristics--Mrs. Blackburn’s Account of a Young Cuckoo Ejecting a Tenant--Breedin...

HYSTRICIDÆ, THE PORCUPINES--Conversion of Hairs into Spines--Skull--Dentition--Tail--Sub-families--The True Porcupines--The Tree Porcupines--THE COMMON PORCUPINE--Distribution--...

Character of the Order--A well-defined Group--Teeth Evidence--Kinds and Number of Teeth--The Incisors: their Growth, Renewal, and Composition--The Molars--The Gnawing Process--S...

THE CAPE ANT-EATER--The Cage at “the Zoo”--Appearance of the Animal--Its Prey--The Ant-hills-How the Orycteropus obtains its Food--Place in the Order--Teeth--Skull--Tongue--Inte...

THE NYL-GHAU--Description--Habits--THE MUSK OX--Difficulties in associating it--Distribution--Habits--THE OX--Chillingham Wild Cattle--Their Habits--Domestic Cattle--The Colling...

THE EAGLES--THE BEARDED EAGLE, OR LÄMMERGEIER--A Visit to their Nest--Habits--A Little Girl carried off Alive--Habits in Greece--Appearance--Von Tschudi’s and Captain Hutton’s D...

Ruminantia--Chewing the Cud--Metaphorical Expression--The Complicated Stomach: Paunch, Honey-comb Bag, Manyplies, Reed--Order of Events in Rumination--Feet and Dentition of Rumi...

SPALACIDÆ, OR MOLE RATS--Characteristics of the Family--Habits--Food--THE MOLE RAT--Distribution--Description--THE CHESTNUT MOLE RAT--THE NAKED MOLE RAT--THE STRAND MOLE RAT--De...

Why the Monotremata are formed into a Sub-order--The lowest of the Mammalian Class--THE PORCUPINE OR LONG-SPINED ECHIDNA--An Ant-eater, but not an Edentate--Its Correct Name--De...

THE GREAT KANGAROO--Captain Cook and the Great Kangaroo--Habitat--Appearance of the Animal--Marsupials separated from the other Mammalian Orders, and why (Footnote)--Gestation a...

THE PHALANGER FAMILY--THE KOALA--Habits--Characteristics--THE CUSCUS--THE VULPINE PHALANGER--THE DORMOUSE PHALANGER--Habits--Remarkable Characters--THE FLYING PHALANGERS--Its Fl...

The Armour-plates--How the Shields are formed--Their connection with the Body--Description of the Animals--Mode of Walking--Diet--Skeleton--Adaptation of their Limbs for Burrowi...

The Three Divisions of the Class Aves--ANATOMY OF A BIRD--The Skeleton--Distinctive Features--Peculiar Bone Character--The Skull--Difference between the Skull of Birds and that...

The South American Forests--Discovery of the Sloth--How it derived its Name--Peculiarities of Dentition--Food--Fore Limbs and Fingers--Hind Limbs and Heel--Other Modifications o...

Characteristics of the Order--The Sub-orders--ZYGODACTYLÆ--THE PARROTS--Their Talking Powers--Sections of the Family--THE GREAT PALM COCKATOO--THE PYGMY PARROTS--THE AMAZON PARR...

Families of Rodents represented by Fossil Remains--State of the “Record of the Rocks”--THE SCIURIDÆ--Sciurine Genera now Extinct--No Fossil ANOMALURIDÆ and HAPLODONTIDÆ--ISCHYRO...

THE STEINBOKS: KLIPSPRINGER, OUREBI, STEINBOK, GRYSBOK, MADOQUA--THE BUSH-BUCKS--Appearance--Distinctive Marks--THE FOUR-HORNED ANTELOPES--Peculiarity in the Chikarah--THE WATER...

THE OSPREY--Distribution--Food--How it Seizes its Prey--Nesting Communities--STRIGES, or OWLS--Distinctions between Hawks and Owls--Owls in Bird-lore and Superstition--Families...

THE BANDED GYMNOGENE--Habits--Its Movable Tarsi--THE HARRIERS--Distinctive Features--THE MARSH HARRIER--Habits--Its Thievish Propensities--THE HARRIER-HAWKS--Colonel Greyson’s A...

Prehistoric Opossums--Description of the Animal--Their Teeth--Habits--THE COMMON OPOSSUM--Appearance--Use of its Tail--Food--The Young--How they are Reared--D’AZARA’S OPOSSUM--T...