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The crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus), found in the tropical parts of America.

A rodent of the genus Dasyprocta, about the size of a rabbit, peculiar to South America and the West Indies. The most common species is the Dasyprocta agouti.

A strong alcoholic drink, especially pulque. [Mexico and Spanish America.]

The three-toed sloth (Bradypus tridactylus) of South America. See Sloth.

Erected in the air; having no solid foundation; chimerical; as, an air-built castle.

A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic.

A magistrate or judge in Spain and in Spanish America, etc. Prescott.

A small South American dog, domesticated by the aborigines.

ll trees. Black alder. (a) A European shrub (Rhamnus frangula); Alder buckthorn. (b) An American species of holly (Ilex verticillata), bearing red berries.

A North American fish (Clupea vernalis) of the Herring family. It is called also ellwife, ellwhop, branch herring. The name is locally applied to other related species.

The agglutinated seeds and husks of the legumes of a South American tree (Inga Marthæ). It is valuable for tanning leather, and as a dye.

Pertaining to or designating the most extensive of the linguistic families of North American Indians, their territory formerly including practically all of Canada east of the 115th meridian and south of Hudson's Bay and the part of the United States east of the Mississippi and north of Tennessee and Virginia, with the…

distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and eastern part of North America. The name was originally applied to a group of Indian tribes north of the River St. Lawrence.

The similar plant Anchusa officinalis; bugloss; also, the American puccoon.

A large carnivorous reptile of the Crocodile family, peculiar to America. It has a shorter and broader snout than the crocodile, and the large teeth of the lower jaw shut into pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in Sout…

eral species of aloe, used as a purgative. [Plural in form but syntactically singular.] American aloe, Century aloe, the agave. See Agave.

alosa); -- called also allice shad or allis shad. The name is sometimes applied to the American shad (Clupea sapidissima). See Shad.

One of the several species of howling monkeys of South America. See Howler, 2.

A North American herb (Heuchera Americana) of the Saxifrage family, whose root has astringent properties.

A name numerous species of South American parrots of the genus Chrysotis Amazon ant (Zoöl.), a species of ant (Polyergus rufescens), of Europe and America. They seize by conquest the larvæ and nymphs other species and make slaves of them in their own nests.