INDEX 



Abdominal aorta and branches 



212 



Abdominal ribs, 80 

 Acetabulum, 85 

 Air chamber of egg, 228 

 Albumen of egg, 229, 230 

 Allantois, 299, 300, 328 

 Alligator, 6 



abundance of, 8 



American, 3 



and cane rat, 28 



and muskrat, 28 



attack from, 14 



bellowing of, 18 



catching of, 34 



cave of, 12 



Chinese, 38 



Cyanocephalus, 110 



daylight hunting of, 33 



dealers in, 34 



derivation of name of, 40 



differs from crocodile, 7 



digging from cave, 33 



distribution of, 10 



economic importance of, 26 



eggs used as food, 35 



feeding of, 12 



fire hunting of, 32 



habitat of, 8 



hatching of, for sale, 35 



hibernation of, 12, 13 



hides, annual output of, 28 

 for card cases, etc., 30 

 chief centers for, 27 

 damaged in removal, 31 

 Floridian, 28, 29 

 highest priced, 32 

 length and width of, 30 

 from Louisiana, 28, 29, 30 

 methods of cutting, 31 

 Mexican, 29, 30 

 removal of, 31 



salting of, 31 



shipment of, 31 



from South and Central 

 America, 27, 28 



from Southern States, 28 



varieties of, 29 



value of different sizes of, 28, 

 29 



value to hunter of, 28 

 hole, II 

 hunting, 32 

 Joe, 9 

 kilhng of, 33 



for sport, 27 

 laws for protection of, 28 

 leather, first used, 26 



for shoes, 27 



imitation, 32 



present use of, 32 

 meat, preparation of, 35 



smoking of, 36 



use as food, 35 

 mississippiensis, 3, 7 

 raw hides, selling of, 32 

 sale of live, 34 

 sinensis, 3, 16 

 the stuffing of, 34 

 swimming of, 13, 14 

 tanned hides, sale of, 32 

 teeth, sale of, 34 



value of, 34 

 trail, II, 13 



unknown to ancients, 40 

 use of tail, 14 

 value of live, 34 

 Alligatoridae, i 



Amnion, 236, 247, 251, 259, 266, 

 267, 268, 269, 270, 274, 275, 

 278, 290, 334 

 Ampullae, 149 

 Ancestry, 4 

 Annulus tympanicus, 149 



349 



