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CONTENTS 



ORDER II 

 The Crocodile, 334] 

 The Alligator, 335 ' 

 A Tame Alligator, 336 



ORDER III 

 Hatteria Punctata, 337 



ORDER IV 

 The Lizards, 337 

 The Chameleon, 337 

 The Iguana, 338 

 The Common Lizard, 338 

 The Monitor, 339 



ORDER V 

 Snakes, 339 

 The Viper, 340 



The Viper and its Young, 340 

 The Rattlesnake, 341 

 The Sting of the Rattlesnake, 341 

 The Black Snake and the Rattlesnake, 



342* 



The Cobra, 343 

 Snake Charming, 343 

 The Cobra as Companion of the Bath, 



344 



A Night with a Cobra, 345 

 An Unpleasant Bedfellow, 345 

 The Boa Constrictor, 346 

 The Boa and its Prey, 346 

 The Boa's Appetite, 347 

 A Terrible Boa, 348 

 A Narrow Escape, 348 



Vertebrata 

 Class IV. Batrachia 



The Batrachia, 350 

 The Common Toad, 351 

 Tame Toads, 351 

 The Common Frog, 352 

 Ingenuity of the Frog, 352 

 The Tree Frog, 353 



Vertebrata 

 Class V. Pisces 



Fishes, 354 



The Sticklebacks, 354 



The Stickleback and the Leech, 355 



The Mackerel, 356 



The Sword Fish, 356 



The Cod, 357 



The Salmon, 358 



The Pike, 358 



The Herring, 360 

 ! The Flying Fish, 360 

 I The Eel, 361 

 I The Gymnotus, 362 



Catching the Gymnotus, 362 



The Torpedo, 365 



The Shark, 366 



The White Shark, 366 



Sharks in the South Seas, 367 



The Rays, 368 



Ray Catching, 369 



