TABLE OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



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A Twelve-foot Male Alligator Taking a Sun Bath 14 



Boy Holding Jaws of Newly-caught Alligator 16 



Den of an Alligator 30 



Alligators do not Feed in the Winter 38 



Portrait of Head of Twelve-foot Alligator 40 



Alligators Hunting Food 54 



Newly-hatched Little Fellows 58 



Skin From an Alligator 62 



The Skull of an Alligator 64 



The Skull of a Thirteen-foot Alligator 64 



'Description of Teeth 66 



A Typical Alligator's Nest 88 



Alligator's Nest Showing Eggs in Place 88 



Eggs of Young Ones, not yet Hatched 90 



Mother Alligator 96 



Female Alligator Guards her Nest 98 



"She Rushed at me With Mouth Open." 102 



E. A. Mcllhenny Opening an Alligator's Nest 104 



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