INDEX 



Abalone, 58 

 Acarina, 82, 83 

 Accipiter atricapillus, 192 

 cooperi, 192, 193 

 velox, 192 



Acipencer huss, see Sturgeon, 117 

 Acorn barnacle, 70 

 Actinozoa, 16 

 African elephant, 265, 266 



ostrich, 180-84 

 Age of reptiles, 135 

 Agramonte, Dr. A., 9 

 Aigrets, 186 

 Alaskan fur-seal, 224 

 Alces americanus, see Moose. 

 Aleution Islands, 224 

 Alfalfa, destruction of, by meadow mice, 



247, 248 



poisoned, for rodents, 249-50 

 Alligator, and cane rats and muskrats, 



171 



eggs as food, 175 

 as food, "175-76 

 hides, first use of, 170 

 numbers taken, 1 70 

 output of tanneries, 171 

 preparation of, 172 

 sizes used, 171 

 value of, to hunter, 171 

 value tanned, 172 

 where collected, 170 

 leather, demand for, in 1918, 172 



imitation of, 172 

 methods of cooking, 176 



of hunting, 172, 174 

 skins of, 173 



reduction in numbers of, 171 



Alligator, trade in teeth, etc., 174-75 



wanton destruction of, 171 

 "Alligator," see Cryptobranchus. 

 Allolobophora, 40 

 Alpaca, domestication of, 267 



as wool producer, 267 

 Ambergris, formation of, 285 



use and value of, 285 

 Amblystoma punctatum, 126 

 Ameba, i 



Amebic dysentery, 2 

 American Bison Society, 268 

 American Goshawk, 192 

 Amniota, 135 

 Amphibia, 108, 123-34 



characteristics of, 123 



classification of, 124 



confused with reptiles, 123 



extinct, 123-24 



hibernation of, 124 



means of self-protection, 125 



number of species, 123 

 Amphineura, 45, 66, 76 

 Amphioxus, anatomy of, 108 

 Ancistrodon contortrix, 159-60 



piscivorus, 158, 159 

 Anclote Key sponges, 13 

 Ankylostoma, duodenale, 33 

 Annelids, 40 



classification of, 40 

 Annulata, 26, 40 

 Anodon, 44 

 Anopheles, 6, 83, 84, 86, 87 



characteristics of, 84 

 Antarctic whaling, 280 

 Anteater, 260-61 

 Anthozoa, 16, 17 

 Antivenin, 157 

 Anti venom sera, 157 



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