WILLIAM BEEBE
Author of Edge of the Jungle, Jungle Days, Gallapagos, World's End,The Arcturus Adventure, etc.

BY THE AUTHOR OF "JUNGLE DAYS,"
"THE LOG OF THE SUN," ETC.

EDGE OF THE
JUNGLE

By WILLIAM BEEBE

Honorary Curator of Birds and Director of the Tropical
Research Station of the New York Zoological Society.

GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK

GARDEN CITY PUBLISHING CO., INC.

Copyright, 1921

By HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

TO
THE BIRDS AND BUTTERFLIES,
THE ANTS AND TREE-FROGS
WHO HAVE TOLERATED ME IN
THEIR JUNGLE ANTE-CHAMBERS
I OFFER THIS VOLUME OF
FRIENDLY WORDS

NOTE

This second series of essays, following those in Jungle Peace, arerepublished by the kindness of the Editors of The Atlantic Monthly,Harper's Magazine and House and Garden.

With the exception of A Tropic Garden which refers to the BotanicalGardens of Georgetown, all deal with the jungle immediately about theTropical Research Station of the New York Zoological Society, situatedat Kartabo, at the junction of the Cuyuni and Mazaruni Rivers, inBritish Guiana.

For the accurate identification of the more important organismsmentioned, a brief appendix of scientific names has been prepared.

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