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INDEX 



Bullfrog, 128-29 



Bull seals, 224 



Bureau of Animal Industry, 34 



Bureau of Education, 272-73 



Bureau of Fisheries, 14, 115, 117, 118, 



119, 120, 122 

 Burpee, A. M., 140 

 Buteo borealis, 192 



lineatus, 192 



"Button" of rattlesnake, 162 

 Buzzards and poisoned ground squirrels, 

 254 



Caiman, 136, 176 



niger, 176 



California ground squirrel, see Squirrel. 

 Callinectes, 76 

 Callorhinus alascanus, 223 

 Calmette, A., 157 

 Cambarus, see Crayfish. 

 Cambrian sponges, 12 

 Camel, 264 



in America, 267 



domestication of, 267 



flesh of hump, 267 



milk and flesh of, as food, 267 



species of, 266 



speed and strength of, 267 



storage of water in stomach of, 



266 



Camelidae, 267 

 Camel's hair cloth, 267 

 Camelus, see Camel. 

 Cameo shell, 59 

 Canal zone, fevers at, 9 

 Canals of sponges, n 

 Cancer irroratus, 77 

 Canidae, 212 



Carbon bisulphid for rodent pests, 243, 

 254, 258, 259 



monoxid for destruction of jats, 241 

 Carcharodon, see Great white shark. 

 Caribou, see Reindeer. 

 Carinatae, 178 



Carnivora, 211 



canine teeth of, 211 



as destroyers of rodent pests, 251 



as food, 222 



food of, 2 it 



losses by predatory, 212 



predatory, campaign against, 212 



teeth of, 211, 212 



vera or fissipedia, 212 

 Carrion crows, 188 

 Carroll, Dr. James, 9 

 Carybdea marsupialis, 16 

 Cassis, see Cameo shell. 

 Castor canadensis, 223, 224 

 Castoridae, 228 

 Catharista atrata, 188 

 Cathartes aura, see Turkey buzzard. 



188, 189 

 Cat family, 212 



skins, 222 

 Cats as destroyers of birds, 197 



and dogs, destruction of, 200 

 Cattle, 264 

 Caudata, 124-26 

 Caviare from sturgeon, 118 

 Centipedes, 69, 78 



as food, 78 



poisonous to man, 78, 79 

 Central America, sponges of, 12 

 Cephalochorda, 107 

 Cephalopoda, 45, 65-67 

 Cercaria, 29 



Cervus, americanus; canadensis, see Elk. 

 Cestoda, 26-28 

 Cetacea, 274-85 



classification of, 274, 276 

 Ceylon pearl fisheries, 62 

 Chaetopoda, 40 

 Chapman, F. M., 193 

 Chelone mydas, see Green turtle. 

 Chelonia, 135-48 



characteristics of, 135-36 



as food, 136-37 



imbricata, 148 



for scientific purposes, 147 

 Chelydra serpentina, 144 



