"The Trojans went with hue and cry--like the birds when the cry of the Cranes is in the front of heaven, who, when they flee from the winter and portentous storms, with cries fly to the streams of Oceanus bearing death and fate to the Pygmies, and at dawn they bear forth with them their evil strife." "As a bird bears a morsel for its unfledged young whenever it obtains any, but fares badly itself, so I have toiled for other men and gained naught myself." "As many flocks of birds, of Geese, Cranes, long-necked Swans, in an Asian meadow by the banks of the Cayster fly hither and thither exulting in their wings as they settle down with cries and the meadow reëchoes, so flocks of men poured from the tents and ships into the plain of the Scamander." "As a flock of Meadow Larks or Jackdaws comes with full, unbroken cry when they see before them a Hawk which bears destruction to small birds, so with full, unbroken cry went the youths of the Achæans before Æneas and Hector." SUMMARY. Page 206. =AFRICAN LION=--_Felis leo capensis_. RANGE--All over central and southern Africa from the western to the eastern coast, and as far north as the 20th degree of northern latitude. ---- Page 210. =CACTI=--(1) _Echinocadus Le Contii_, Tempe, Arizona. (2) _Mamillaria Sheerii_, Nogales, Arizona. ---- Page 214. =AMERICAN FLYING SQUIRREL=--_Pteromys volucella_. RANGE--All over the United States and Central America. ---- Page 218. =HUMMING-BIRDS=--(1) _Lampornis gramineus_, Venezuela. (2) _Petasophora Anais_, Columbia. (3) White-tailed Hummer. ---- Page 223. =SILK-WORM=--_Bombyx mori_. Originally from China. ---- Page 227. =CALIFORNIA VULTURE=--_Pseudogryphus californianus_. Other name: California Condor. RANGE--Coast ranges of southern California from Monterey Bay southward into Lower California; formerly north to Frazer River. NEST--On the bare floor of a cave in a lofty precipice. EGG--One. ---- Page 230. =AMERICAN GOLDEN-EYE=--_Glaucionetta clangula americana_. Other names: Whistler, Whistle Wing, Brass-eyed Whistler, Great Head, Garrot. RANGE--North America, nesting from our northern boundaries to the far south, and wintering in the United States southward to Cuba. NEST--In hollow trees, lined with grass, leaves, and moss. EGGS--Six to ten, ashy green in color. ---- Page 233. =AMERICAN SKUNK=--_Mephitis varians_. RANGE--Extensive, being most plentiful near Hudson Bay, whence it is distributed southward. INDEX. VOLUME IV.--JULY TO DECEMBER, 1898. A Bloodless Sportsman, 39 A Book By the Brook, 39 Acorn, Thirty Miles for an, 29 African Folk Lore, 12 Ah Me!, 113 Alaska, Birds of, 95 All Nature, 37 Almond, Flowering (_Amygdalus communis_), 193-5 Animals and Music, 159 Animals' Rights, 225 Animals, Some Propensities of, 81 Animals, Talk of, 140 Animals and Water, 84 Animal World, In the, 136 Antelope, The Pigmy (_Antilope pigmea_), 94-95 Apple Blossoms, 36