INDEX 



315 



Turtle, common snapping, 144 

 food of, 144 

 mode of capture, 144 

 size and value, 144, 146 

 eggs as food, 139 

 hawksbill, 148, 149 

 characteristics, 148 

 removal and fusing of plates, 148 

 loggerhead, 139 

 map, 147 

 musk, 147 

 red-bellied, 147 

 soft-shelled, 144, 146 

 speckled, 147 

 wood, 147 

 Turtles, 136 



as insect destroyers and scavengers, 



148 



mode of capture, 147, 148 

 Tusks of elephants, size, 266 

 Two-humped camel, 266 

 Two-toed sloth, 260 

 Typhoid fever and flies, 92 



epidemics, 94 

 Typhoid fly, 92 



U 



Unarmed tapeworm, 27, 28 

 Ungulata, 263-74 



characteristics, 264 



orders, 263-64 

 Unionidae, for pearls or buttons, 61, 



62,63 



Unio shell drilled for buttons, 63 

 Upper Jurassic birds, 178 

 Ursidae, 212 

 U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, see Bureau of 



Fisheries. 

 U. S. Fish Commission, 118 



Velvet, horns in, 271 



Venal flukes, 29 



Venison, in ancient times, 268 



digestibility, 268 



of elk, 271 



Venus' basket, 22 



Venus mercenaria, see Little-neck clam. 



Vermes, 26 



Vertebrata, 107-285 



classes of, 108 

 Vespertilio subulatus, 210 

 Viperine snakes, 154 

 Virginia opossum, 207 

 Viruses, rat, 243 

 Visceral bars, 107 



clefts, see Gill clefts. 

 Viviparous mammals, 206 

 Voles, see Field mice. 

 Vulpes, 216 

 Vulture, California or condor, 189 



W 



Wallabies, 207 



Walmsley trap for rabbits, 256 



Walrus, 212 



Wampum, 60 



Wapiti, see Elk. 



Water dog, see Mud puppy. 



Water flea, 68, 69 



Water -vascular system, 20 



Weasel, 222 



and field mice, 251 

 West India sponges, 12 

 Wet grain formula for rodent poison, 249 

 Whale, finback, 278-79 



fisheries, 280 



humpback, 278 



largest, 277 



oil, 278-81 



sperm, 277 



sulphur-bottom, 277 



whalebone, 274, 276-77 



whale, food of, 277 

 Whalebone, see Baleen. 

 Whales, 205, 274-85 



characteristics, habits and size, 276- 



77 



as food, 285 

 guano from, 285 

 other products, 281 



