INDEX 



301 



Frog, food, 131 

 green, 129, 131 

 leopard, 129 

 marsh, 129 



metamorphosis, 123, 124, 131 

 mode of collection, 130 

 numbers raised, 131 

 pickerel, 129 



preparation of, for food, 128 

 shad, 129 

 spring, 129, 131 

 tiger, 129 

 western, 128, 129 

 Fumigation of houses, 241 



of ships, 242 

 Funston Bros., 213 

 Fur-bearing animals, 212 



domestication of, 214 

 -farming, 214 



reasons for, 214 

 Fur-seal, breeding season, 224 



controversy with England, 226 



convention, 226 



death of pups, 224 



diminution of, 226 



home, 224 



importance, 223 



methods of killing, 224 



migration, 224 



natural history, 224-26 



sales, 226 



skin, treatment of, 227 



value of, 227 



trade, history and value of, 213 

 Furs, American, 213 

 misnomers, 221 



Game animals, 264 

 Gadus morrhua, see Cod. 

 Gases as rat destroyers, 241 

 Gastropoda, 45, 60 

 Gavials, 136 

 Geckos, 136 

 Gemmules of sponge, 1 2 



Geomyideae, 228 



Geomys bursarius, see Pocket gopher. 

 Georgahan, Dr., 114 

 Giant clams, 59 



Gila monster, effects of bite, 150 

 fangs, 150 



habits, 150 

 Gill bars, see Visceral bars. 



clefts, 107 

 Giraffe, 264 

 Glires, 227 

 Globigerina, 3 



ooze, 3 



Glossina palpalis, 3 

 Gnawing animals, 227 

 Goat, 264 



skin, 221 



Golden eagle and ground squirrel, 254 

 Goose barnacles, 69 

 Gorilla gorilla, 262 



habits and size, 262-63 

 Grasshoppers as food, 103 

 Grassi, G. B., 7 

 Grass snake, 167 

 Great anteater of Brazil, 261 

 Greece, sponges of, 12 

 Green Harbor whaling station, 280 

 Greenland whale, 276-77 

 Green turtle, 137-39 



breeding habits, 137-39 



centers and value of industry, 137 



eggs as food, 139 



as food, 137-39 



oil, 137 



poisonous at times, 137 



propagation of, 139 



size and distribution, 137 

 Grenfell, Dr. W., 274 

 Ground itch, 35 

 Ground squirrels and corn, 254 



cost of poisoning, 253 



as carriers of plague, 252 



danger as food, 259 



destructiveness, 252-54 



food, 252 



habits, 252 



