INDEX 



295 



Bee keeping, trees, 103 

 Bees- wax, production of, 103 

 Beetle larvae as food, 103 

 Belly skin of alligator, 172 

 Benzine for moths, 102 

 Bilibed prison and hookworm, 36 

 Biological Survey, 178, 190, 212 

 Birds, relation to agriculture, 189-97 



altricial, 178 



bag limits of, 200 



characteristics of, 177-78 



classification of, 178 



closed seasons for, 200 



collection of eggs, 200 



decrease in numbers of, 197 



destroyed by cats, 197 

 by dogs, 198 

 by foreigners, 197 

 by rats, etc., 198 



destroyers of insects, 189-91 

 of rodent pests, 191-94 



eggs of, 177 

 as food, 184 



enemies of, 197 



feeding boxes, 203-04 



as food, 184 



food, determination of, 190 

 shelf, 202 



fruits and berries, 202 



houses, 199 



law in Pa., 193-94 



law treaty with Canada, 199 



lectures on, 200 



list of those protected in U. S. A., 

 199-200 



natural enemies, 197 



nests, edible, 185 



number of species, 178 



as ornaments, 186, 200 



Paradise, 186 



precocious, 178 



preserves, 203-04 



protection of, 197-204 



as scavengers, 186-87 



shooting of, 198 



study of feeding habits, 190 



Birds, study of stomach contents, 190 



supplying food for, 202 



teeth and vertebrae, 177 

 Bishop Museum, Honolulu, 186 

 Bison, 226 



American, 267-68 



preserves, 267 



wanton destruction of, 267 

 Bivalves, see Lamellibranchs. 

 Black caiman, 176 



death, see Bubonic plague. 



fox, 216 



value of breeders, 217 



marten skin, 222 



rat, 229 



vulture, 188 



widow spider, see Spider. 

 Blackbirds or grackles, 195-96 

 Blackheads, 82 

 Black snakes as ratters, 251 

 Bladder- worms, 27, 28 

 Blubber of whale, 281 

 Blue jay, 195 



Bobcats and ground squirrels, 254 

 Bombyx mori, see Silk worm. 

 Bony fishes, 113 

 Booby eggs, 184 

 Boring sponges, 14 

 Bot-fly of cattle, 91 



of horse, 90 



of man, 91 



Box tortoise as food, 137 

 Bradypodidae, see Sloths. 

 Breakbone fever, 10 

 Brittle-stars, 22, 24, 25 

 Brooks, W. K., 45, 47, 61 

 Brown bat, 211 



rat, 229-44 

 Bubo virginianus, 191 

 Bubonic plague, control of, 228 



deaths from, 228 



history of, 228 

 Buddhists, 6r 

 Buffalo robes, 267 

 Bufo lentiginosus americanus, 132 

 Bufonidae, species of, 132 



