...atter of necessity, like the killing of a man-eating tiger in a nursery, a venomous snake in the garden, or a fox in the poultry yard. No society coul... ...rs. There should be a series of Coming of Ages for every indi- vidual. The mammals have their first coming of age when they are weaned; and it is note... ... The Family, The Domestic Hearth, and so on, are no more specific than The Mammals, or The Man In The Street; and the pious generalizations founded so...

...ian Fossils — Two Species of Ostrich — Habits of Oven-bird — Armadilloes — Venomous Snake, Toad, Lizard — Hybernation of Animal — Habits of Sea-Pen — ... ...icas,’ 1857), this district, and he believes that the bones of the extinct mammals were washed out of the underlying Pampean de- posit, and subsequent... ...f North and South America. The South American character of the West Indian mammals* seems to indicate that this archipelago was formerly united to the... ...steries — the first appearance of new beings on this earth. Of terrestrial mammals, there is only one which must be considered as indigenous, namely, ...