To it also belong the Virginia stag

the wild sheep of California, the opo um, and raccoon. Characteristic of Central and South America are sloths, ant-eaters, and armadillos, the condor among the heights of the Andes, the most beautiful parrots as well as peculiar monkeys in the woods, the humming bird with its rich metallic plumage, the rattlesnake, the alligator or cayman on the banks of the streams, the electrical ee] in the tropical waters, swarms of mosquitoes on the wide plains, and sea fowl in such numbers on the W. coast as to have furnished large deposits of guano, to which some of the richest covwntries of Europe are indebted for the means of extending and largely increasing the product of their agriculture. The independent States of both North and South America are now all republican in their form of American Federation government, though it was only ir 1889 that Brazil became a republic Instead of an empire. The different independent States are as fulluws: In NortTH AMERICA — 1. The United States; 2. Mexico; 3. Nicaragua; 4. Honduras; 5. Guatemala; 6. Costa Rica; 7. (San) Salvador. In the West INpIEs —8. Cuba; 9. Haiti; 10.