INDEX 



299 



Dredge for oysters, 50-52 

 Dromedary or one-humped camel, 266 

 Dry grain formula for rodent poison, 249 

 Dryobates villosus, see Hairy wood- 

 pecker. 

 Duckbill, 206 

 Dugong, see Sirenia. 

 Dum-dum fever, 10 

 Dynamite, 10 

 Dysentery and flies, 92 



Earthworm, 40 



abundance, 41 



castings, 40 



damage done to plants, 41 



as disease carriers, 41 



distribution, 40 



food, 41 



as food, 41 



poisoning of, 41 



South African and Australian forms, 

 40 



value to soil, 41 

 Echidna, 206 

 Echinodermata, 20 

 Echinoidea, 20, 24 

 Edentata, 260-62 



families of, 260-66 

 Edible birds' nests, see Birds' nests, 185 



snails, see Snails. 

 Eel worm, human, 31 



cure, 32 



life-history, 32 



infection, 32 



Egg-laying mammals, 206 

 Elapine snakes, 153 

 Elaps fulvius, 153, 154 

 Elasmobranchii, 108, 113 

 Elephant, capture, 265 



as beast of burden, 265 



as food, 266 



Indian, 265 



intelligence, 265 



size, 265 



Elephant, species, 265 



tusks, 265-66 



use in Orient, 265 

 Elephant's tusk shell, 66 

 Elephantiasis, 38 

 Elk, 270-72 



adaptation to domestication, 271 



castration, 272 



cost of breeders, 272 



danger from bucks, 272 



feed for, 272 



fence, 272 



former range, 270 



-hide clothes, 269 



-horn, 269 



use and value of, 269 



polygamous habits, 271 



rate of increase, 271 



weight, 272 



Embalming of rats by poison, 241 

 Encouragement of birds, 198-204 

 Entameba buccalis, 2 



coli, i, 2 



dysenteriae, 2 



histolytica, 2 

 Enteropneusta, 107 

 Entire skins of alligators, 172 

 Entomology, 83 

 Entomostraca, 69 



Epidermal structures of mammals, 205 

 Epsom salts, 36 

 Eptesicus fuscus, 211 

 Ermine skins, 213 

 Eutania, see Garter snakes, 162 

 Eutheria, 206 

 Even-toed ungulates, see Artiodactyla. 



Falco, 192 



peregrinus anatum, 192 

 Fangs of pit vipers, 154, 155 



shedding of, 155 



Fasciola (Distomum) hepatica, 29 

 Fat tapeworm, 27, 28 

 Feather stars, 22, 25 

 Felidae, 212 



