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INDEX 



Smallpox and flies, 92 

 Smith, Theobald, 4 

 Snail, farms, 58 

 gardens, 58 

 pens, 58 



Snaileries, see Snail farms. 

 Snails, edible, breeding habits, 58 

 culture, in U. S., 58 

 methods of cooking, 58 

 number used, 58 

 season, 58 

 and slugs, 45 

 Snake, banded or yellow chicken snake, 



167 



banded water, confused with moc- 

 casin, 164 



bite and alcohol, 157 

 protection against, 157 

 treatment of, 156-57 

 black coluber, 166 



racer, 166 



blacksnake, 165, 166 

 blue racer, 166 

 brown or ground, 164 



water, 164 

 bull, 167-68 

 coluber, 166 

 common king, chain or thunder, 



167, 169 

 water, 163, 164 

 copperhead, 153, 154, 156, 159, 160, 



162 



effect of bite, 161 

 cottonmouth moccasin, 159 

 diamond rattler, 161, 162 

 Emory's coluber, 166 

 four-banded coluber, 167 

 fox or red-headed coluber, 166 

 garter, 162-64 



gopher, indigo or rat, 164, 166 

 green, 167 



highland moccasin, see Copperhead, 

 hog-nosed, 170 

 king, 167, 169 

 milk or house, 167 

 moccasin, 153-54, 156, 158 



Snake, moccasins, so-called, 159 



non-venomous, 162 



pigmy or ground rattler, 162 



pilot, distinguished from black 

 racer, 166 



puff adder or blowing viper, 170 



racers, 164-66 



rat or chicken, 166 



rattlers, size of, 162 

 pigmy or ground, 156 

 rattle as indication of age, 162 

 shedding, 162 



red, chicken or corn, 166 

 coluber, 165 



spotted adder, 167 

 chicken, 166 



striking distance, 154 



venom, types of, 157 



venomous and non-venomous, 153 



water moccasin, 159 



wine, 170 

 Snakes, as destroyers of mice, 251 



as food, 170 



Snapping turtle, see Turtle. 

 Snowshoe rabbits, 254 

 Snyder, T. E., 99 

 Soft-shell clam rake, 54 



-shelled clam, see Long-necked clam. 



-shelled turtle, 144, see Turtle. 

 Soil pollution, 36 

 Sonora coral snake, 153-54 

 Sooty tern, 184 

 Soricidae, 209 



South American ostriches, see Rheas, 180 

 South Georgia whaling station, 281 

 Spanish-American War, typhoid fever, 



94 

 Sparrow, English or house, damage by, 



194-95 



time and place of introduction, 195 

 Sparrow, fox, 196 



tree, 196 



white- throated, 196-. 

 Spat of oyster, 47 

 Sperm oil, 278-81 



amount from single whale, 281 



