Pets and how to care for them . -back Pheasant Brown Eared Pheasant . Silver Pheasant Indian Peahen and Chick White Peacock Displaying Mute and Trumpeter Swans Cereopsis Geese and Goslings Mallard Ducks Mandarin .... Green-winged Macaw Lesser Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Green-cheeked Amazon Parrot Gray Parrot Song Thrush Nightingale Dyal Thrush . Blue Solitare Diamond Finch Giant Whydah European Jay Gray Java Sparrow Wild Canary Yorkshire Canary Norwich Canary . PAGE 7S 9999114114121121135135144144163163163163174174174174197197197 xvi ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Crested Canary . , , . . 197 Rock Dove 226
Pets and how to care for them . -back Pheasant Brown Eared Pheasant . Silver Pheasant Indian Peahen and Chick White Peacock Displaying Mute and Trumpeter Swans Cereopsis Geese and Goslings Mallard Ducks Mandarin .... Green-winged Macaw Lesser Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Green-cheeked Amazon Parrot Gray Parrot Song Thrush Nightingale Dyal Thrush . Blue Solitare Diamond Finch Giant Whydah European Jay Gray Java Sparrow Wild Canary Yorkshire Canary Norwich Canary . PAGE 7S 9999114114121121135135144144163163163163174174174174197197197 xvi ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Crested Canary . , , . . 197 Rock Dove 226 Homing Pigeon . . . , . 226 Flying Tippler 226 jBirmingham Roller 226 Almond Short-faced Tumbler 241 Black Fan-tail 241 Black Shield . . 241 Bluette ......... 241 Common Goldfish ........ 273 Japanese Scaleless Veil-tailed Goldfish .... 273 Scaleless Telescope Goldfish . . . 273 Haplochilus earnerootiensis . . ... 273 Xiphophorus helleri ....... 284 Alfaro cultratum 284 Paradise Fish 284 Climbing Perch 284. SECTION IMAMMALS CHAPTER IDOGS What shall we say of the dog? The close companion ofman almost from the beginning, his praises have been sungin every tongue. The literature of the world containscountless eulogies of his devotion and courage, so that littlenow remains to be said. The savage wolf-dog of our almostequally savage ancestors has become the pampered pet ofmodern civilization; but the sterling characters which madehim indispensable in those old days have increased withthe passage of time. That the dog was of the utmost im-portance to primitive man we may not doubt. His servicesto men who lived chiefly on meat must have been incalculable,and it is probable that to this fact the domestication of thedog is due. Aboriginal men in all parts of the worldstill have their packs of half-wild dogs, often obviouslydescended, at least in part, from native feral species. Just when the dog first became associated with man we donot know. The facts are shrouded in the mysteries of t
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