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IXTRODUCTORY XOTK XV 



Section A.— LIST OF .N^^IMALS OF NORTH AMERICA BENEFICIAL OR 

 INJURIOUS TO MAN. 



I. M.^MMALS 1 



1. Ft'i'ic (carnivores) 1 



Fissipedia (land carnivores) ,. 1 



Piimipedia (seals, &e. ) .'> 



2. Uugulata (hoofed animals) 7 



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



4. Cete (whales) 10 



Denticete (sperm whales and dolphins) 10 



Mysticete (haleen whales) 12 



5. Insectivora (moles, &c.) V.i 



6. Glires (gnawers) 14 



7. ^larsupialia (niarsupiates) 20 



IL Birds JO 



III. Reptiles '21 



8. Crocodilia (crocodiles) '21 



9. Testudinata (tortoises) 21 



V. Fishes 23 



10. Pedicnlati (anglers) 23 



11. PU'ctognathi (globe, trunk, and file fishes) 23 



12. Lophobranchii (i)ipe-fishes, &v.) , 25 



13. Teleocephali 2(i 



Heterosomata (Hat lishes) 28 



Anacanthini (cods, &c.) 28 



Acanthopteri (spiny-hnned iislics) 31 



Pcrcesoccs (mullets, &c. ) 53 



Syncntognathi (gar-fislies and flying-fislies) 54 



Haplomi (pikes, &c. ) .55 



Isospondyli (salmon, herring, &c. ) 5(i 



E ventognathi (cai-jis) (jl 



14. Neiuatognathi (cat-fishes) 62 



15. Ajjodes (eels) Go 



16. Cycloganoidei (amias) G:! 



17. Rhomhoganoidei (gar-pikes) G4 



18. Selacliosfomi (patldle-fish) 04 



19. Chondrostei (sturgeons) G4 



VI. ELASMOint AXCIIIATKS ()5 



20. Holocephali (cliiuKcras) G5 



21. Raiic (skates and rays) Gij 



22. Squall (sharks) ()7 



VII 



