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INDEX 



Anura, 124, 126-27 



families of, 127 

 Apes, 262 



Apiaries of California, 102 

 Apoda, 124, 126 

 Appalachicola sponges, 13 

 Apteryx australis, see Kiwi, 180 

 Arachnida, 70, 79 



characteristics of, 71 

 Archaeopteryx lithographica, 178-79 

 Archaeornithes, 178 

 Ardea egretta, 186-87 

 Aristotle's lantern, 21 

 Armadillo, 260-62 



destruction of, 262 



food of, 262 



as food, 262 



habits, 262 



Arsenic, white, as rat poison, 241 

 Arthropoda, 68 



classification of, 68 



number of species, 68 

 Artiodactyla, 263-64 

 Ascaris lumbricoides, 31-33 

 Asia Minor, sponges of, 12 

 Aspidonectes spinifer, 146 

 Ass, 264 



Astacus, see Crayfish. 

 Asteroidea, 20, 24 

 Astracan, 215 

 Atoll, 1 8, 19 

 Audubon Society, 178, 186 



organization of, 200 

 Aves, 177, 204, see Birds. 

 Aviculidae, 61 



Babesia, 4 



Bacteria on fly's wing, 93 

 Bactrian camel, 266 

 Badgers and ground squirrels, 254 

 Bahama Islands, sponges of, 12 

 Balaena mysticetus, 276 

 Balaenoptera musculus, 277, 282 

 physalus, see Finback whale. 

 Balanus, see Acorn barnacle, 70 



Baleen or whalebone, 277 



bundles of, 284 



chief factories, 285 



from one animal, 282 



past and present values, 285 



ports of receipt, 285 



removal from whale, 282 



size of slabs, 282-84 



substitutes for, 285 



whales producing, 281 

 Barbados, sea-eggs of, 24 

 Barbary sponges, 12 

 Barium carbonate as rat poison, 241 

 Barnacles, 69 

 Barracuda, 113 



Barren-ground caribou, 272-73 

 Basket fish, 22 

 Bat, brown, 211 



food of, 210 



hibernation of, 210 



little brown, 210 



number of species, 210 



red, 211 



shelters for, 210 



size of, 210 



tactile sense of, 210 



vampire, 211 

 Batrachia, see Amphibia. 

 Bdellostoma, 108-10 

 Beaded lizards, see Lizard, 150 

 Bear, 172 



family, 212 



-goat skin, 221 



skins, 222 

 Beaver, 221, 223 



as food, 260 



skins, 213 

 Beche-de-mer, 25 

 Bedbug and kala-azar, 10 



methods of control, 102 

 Beebe, C. W., 211 

 Beechey ground squirrel, see Ground 



squirrel. 



Beef tapeworm, 27, 28 

 Bee keeping, time and place of origin, 

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