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The Condor (Young Folks' Library in Twenty)

Young Folks' Library in Twenty Volumes Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Editor-in-Chief A BOOK OF NATURAL HISTORY .

EDITED BY DAVID STARR JORDAN VOLUME XIV BOSTON HALL AND LOCKE COMPANY PUBLISHERS UTAM COPYRIGHT, 1902, BY HALL & LOCKE COMPANY.

BOSTON, U. S. A.

Stanbope Press F. H. GILSON COMPANY BOSTON. U.S.A.

CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS .

ANIMALS, BIRDS, AND FISHES BY DAVID STARR JORDAN.

THE WONDER OF LIFE BY PROFESSOR T. H. HUXLEY.

LIFE GROWTH; FROGS. - BY MARGARET WARNER MORLEY.

THE MAN-LIKE APES.

BY PROFESSOR T. H. HUXLEY.

SOME STRANGE NURSERIES BY GRANT ALLEN. 1 HOW ANIMALS SPEND THE WINTER BY W. S. BLATCHLEY.

BIRDS' NESTS.

BY JOHN BURROUGHS. e • • • BIRDS IN THEIR RELATION TO AGRICULTURE BY LAWRENCE BRUNER.

THE SCISSOR BEAK.

BY CHARLES DARWIN.

THE CONDOR BY CHARLES DARWIN.

THE UMBRELLA BIRD BY SIR A. R. WALLACE.

HUMMING BIRDS • • BY THOMAS G. BELT, F.G.S.

THE FOUNDATIONS OF A WONDERFUL CITY BY MAURICE MAETERLINCK.

WASPS • BY THOMAS G. BELT, F.G.S.

A WASP AND ITS PREY • BY G. W. AND E. G. PECKHAM. • 湯 6 PAGE xiii XV 1 • 10 15 46 0 • 69 6 88 121 143 B 146 0 153 • C 155 158 175 180 190 LEAF-CUTTING ANTS BY THOMAS G. BELT, F.G.S.

BY CHARLES DARWIN.

SOME WONDERFUL SPIDERS.

WHAT I SAW IN AN ANT'S NEST BY ANDREW WILSON.

W THE WILD LLAMA BY CHARLES DARWIN.

BATS.

BY W. S. DALLAS, F.G.S.

HOW SNAKES EAT • BY CATHERINE C. HOPLEY.

WHAT WORMS DO.

BY CHARLES DARWIN. • Contents TWO FOPS AMONG THE FISHES BY W. S. BLATCHLEY..

SEA SLUGS AND CUTTLE-FISH BY CHARLES DARWIN.

THE COW FISH BY SIR ALFRED RUSSELL WALLACE.

OLD RATTLER AND THE KING SNAKE BY DAVID STARR JORDAN.

THE STORY OF A STRANGE LAND BY DAVID STARR JORDAN.

THE COLOR OF ANIMALS.

BY SIR JOHN LUBBOCK BART.

PROTECTIVE RESEMBLANCES IN SPIDERS BY E. G. PECKHAM. - THE BATH OF THE BIRDS BY RICHARD JEFFERIES.

THE LOON. • BY HENRY D. THOREAU.

THE DARTMOOR PONIES BY ARABELLA R. BUCKLEY.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES • PAGE 233 260 • 266 286 294 297 299 305 • 315 343 • 369 • 378 384 • 396 • 398 SUGGESTIONS FOR SUPPLEMENTARY READING 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." LIST OF COLORED ILLUSTRATIONS THE CONDOR THE GORILLA THE YELLOW BELLIED WOODPECKER THE UMBRELLA BIRD 3 THE GUANACO • THE VAMPIRE BAT • THE COW FISH • • 6 PAGE Frontispiece Face Page 40 96 • • 152 G 230 0 C 240 296 AND ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-TWO BLACK AND WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT.