Forest and stream . he mammals; while as we know itis the land of the coppery-tailed trogon (T. amlngum),the lovely Texan kingfisher, the curious parauque (), some of the most beautiful of the humming-birds, and the famous chachalaoa (Ortalis vetnla mac-fiiH:. among the birds. And when we come to the rep-tiles, fish, and insects, there is no end to the novelties andintensely interesting forms for study. Among the last-named occurs the much-dreaded whip-tailed scorpion, as the writer pleases to call it, the vin-egaroon, as most of the people thereabouts designate theinsect, which is
Forest and stream . he mammals; while as we know itis the land of the coppery-tailed trogon (T. amlngum),the lovely Texan kingfisher, the curious parauque (), some of the most beautiful of the humming-birds, and the famous chachalaoa (Ortalis vetnla mac-fiiH:. among the birds. And when we come to the rep-tiles, fish, and insects, there is no end to the novelties andintensely interesting forms for study. Among the last-named occurs the much-dreaded whip-tailed scorpion, as the writer pleases to call it, the vin-egaroon, as most of the people thereabouts designate theinsect, which is the Thclyphonus giganteus of science. Afew days ago I received a very fine adult specimen ofthis creature, from Steward Henry Bunger of the Hos-pital Corps of the Array, who collected it at his station,Fort Seldon, New Mexico, and forwarded it to me. Upon receiving it, I immediately made a life-size draw-ing of the insect, the figure which illustrates the presentarticle. Manv reports have come to me about this scor-. Upper view of a specimen of tlie Whip-tailed Scorpion (The Vinegaroon) Tlichifihri-iim (jiganteus; life size,from nature, by the author. pion, and those who have seen it in its native haunts arecurious to know how it is regarded and classified bynaturalists. Personally, I have never known of a case thatproved fatal from its bite, though Professor Packard, theeminent entomologist, tells us that its bite is poisonous,yet seldom causes the death of the person who sus-tains it. Scorpions, it will be remembered, are somewhat closelyallied to the true spiders (Arachnida) and are character-ized in possessing a liver, which organ is absent in thewinged insects. They are likewise without antennas,and have but one pair of jaws, and four pairs of the abdomen is of considerable size, while thehead and thorax are more intimately united together thanwe find these two divisions in the bodies of most otherinsects to be. We are all more or less familiar with the form o
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