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The winners in life's race : $b Or, the great backboned family

Name: The winners in life's race : $b Or, the great backboned family
Author: Buckley, Arabella B. (Arabella Burton)

Buckley, Arabella B. (Arabella Burton)

Animals -- Juvenile literature; Vertebrates -- Juvenile literature

Tail, jointed, of ancient land-bird, 130;
    of minnow, 24;
    homocercal and heterocercal, 30;
    of bony fish, 45;
    of sharks and sturgeon, 30.

  _Tailor bird’s nest_, 173.

  Tallegallus, mound-building birds, 158.

  Tapirs, past and present range of, 264.

  _Tasmanian marsupials_, 197.

  Teeth as defences, 260;
    in jaws of ancient birds, 130;
    of American monkeys, 246;
    of Old World monkeys, 248;
    of ancient type of fish, 35, 38, 39;
    of lamprey, 17, 19, 37;
    of rodents and insect-eaters, 217;
    of snake used in holding, 115;
    of snake are its poison fangs, 119.

  Tenrecs of Madagascar, 216.

  Termites, ant-bear feeding on, 205.

  _Tern, black-winged_, 144.

  Terrapins or box-tortoises, 101.

  _Testudo Græca_, 96.

  Thresher-shark, 28.

  Thrush, nest of the song-, 170.

  Thuringian lizard, earliest reptile, 91.

  _Tiger_, 287;
    _claws of the_, 289;
    _man fighting the sabre-toothed_, 333, 343;
    range and habits of the, 292;
    sabre-toothed, 290;
    structure of the, 288.

  _Tiger wolf or Thylacinus_, 197.

  Tinamous, a group between running birds and ground birds, 156.

  Toad, habits of the, 85.

  Todies of America, 168.

  Toe-thumbs in opossums, dormouse and monkey, 242.

  Tongue of frog, 77;
    of snake a harmless organ of touch, 112, 118, 119;
    of the woodpecker, 164.

  Torpedo-fish, 42.

  Tortoise, _back of a young_, 99;
    _Greek_, 96;
    structure and habits of, 95–100.

  Tortoises, gigantic land, 101;
    mud and sea, 102.

  Tortoise-shell, 97.

  Toucans, climbing-birds, 165.

  Tree-frogs, 86, 87.

  Trilobites with the early fish, 37.

  Trunk of the elephant, 277.

  Tunny, a fish without air-bladder, 53.

  Turkeys, scratching birds, 157.

  Turnstones, wading birds, 148.

  Turtles, 101, 102.

  Tusks, as weapons, 260, 263;
    of the elephant, 276;
    wanting in early forms, 260.


  Uneven-toed animals, origin of, 265.

  Ungulata, or hoofed animals, 257.


  Vampires in South America, 237.

  Vegetable-feeders, _see_ Herbivora.

  Vertebrata, advantages of the, 7;
    spinal cord of the, 9.

  Viper, _common English_, 121;
    killed by the buzzard, 120.

  Viscacha of South America, 225.

  Vultures, scavengers of the earth, 174.


  _Wading birds, a group of_, 149.

  Walking fish, 57.

  Wallace, Mr. A. R., bitten by bats, 237;
    on colugo, 232;
    on mound-building birds, 159;
    on orangutan, 252;
    on separation of Australasia, 186.

  _Walrus_, 294;
    structure, home, and habits of the, 309.

  Wart-hogs of Africa, 263.

  Water-birds, _the earliest known_, 123;
    structure of, 141.

  Water-mole, 188.

  Water-ouzel or dipper, 172.

  Water-rat and water-shrew, 219.

  _Weasel, a small flesh-feeder_, 280.

  Weevers, spined fish, 58.

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