TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



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Introductory xote xv 



Section A.— LIST OF ANIMALS OF NORTH AMERICA BENEFICIAL OR 

 INJURIOUS TO MAN. 



I. Mammals 1 



1. FertB (carnivores) 1 



Fissipedia (laud carnivores) 1 



Pinnipedia (seals, &c. ) ^ 



2. Ungulata (hoofed animals) 7 



3. Sirenia (sea-coTvs, &c. ) 9 



4. Cete (whales) 10 



Denticete (sperm whales and dolphins) 10 



Mysticete (baleen whales) 12 



5. Insectivora (moles, &c.) 13 



6. Glires (gnawers) 14 



7. Marsu]5ialia (marsupiates) "20 



II. Birds 20 



III. Reptiles 21 



8. CrocodiUa (crocodiles) 21 



9. Tostudinata (tortoises) ~1 



Y. Fishes 23 



10. Pediculati (anglers) 23 



11. Plectognathi (globe, trunk, and iile fishes) 23 



12. Lophobrauchii (jiipe-fishes, &c. ) 2.5 



13. Teleocephali 26 



Heterosomata (flat fishes) .' 25 



Anacanthini (cods, «S:.c. ) 2S 



Acanthopteri (spiuy-finned fishes) 31 



Percesoces (midlets, &c. ) 53 



Syneutognathi (gar-fishes and flying-fishes) 54 



Haplomi (pikes, &c. ) 55 



Isospondyli (salmon, herring, &c.) 56 



Eventognathi (carps) 01 



14. Nematoguathi (cat-fishes) 62 



15. Apodes (eels) 63 



16. Cyclogauoidei (anuas) 63 



17. Rhomboganoidei (gar-pikes) 64 



18. Selachostomi (paddle-fish) 64 



19. Chondi-ostei (stiu'geous) 64 



VI. Elasmobranchiates 65 



20. Holocej)hali (chimreras) 65 



21. Raiaj (skates and rays) 63 



22. Squall (sharks) 67 



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