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INTRODUCTORY NOTE xv 



SECTION A. LIST OF ANIMALS OF NORTH AMERICA BENEFICIAL OR 

 INJURIOUS TO MAN. 



I. MAMMALS 1 



1. Ferae (carnivores) .* 1 



Fissipedia (laud carnivores) 1 



Piunipedia (seals, &c.) 5 



2. Ungulata (hoofed animals) 7 



3. Sireuia (sea-cows, &c. ) 9 



4. Cete (whales) 10 



Denticete (sperm whales and dolphins) 10 



Mysticete (baleen whales) 12 



5. Insectivora (moles, &c.) 13 



6. Glires (gnawers) 14 



7. Marsupialia (marsupiates) 20 



II. BIRDS 20 



III. REPTILES 21 



8. Crocodilia (crocodiles) 21 



9. Testudinata (tortoises) 21 



V. FISHES 23 



10. Pediculati (anglers) 23 



11. Plectognathi (globe, trunk, and file fishes) 23 



1'3. Lophobrauchii (pipe-fishes, &c. ) , 25 



13. Teleocephali 26 



Heterosomata (flat tishes) 25 



Auacanthiui (cods, &c.) 28 



Acanthopteri (spiny-firmed fishes) 31 



Percesoces (mullets, &e. ) 53 



Synentognathi (gar-fishes and flying-fishes) * 54 



Haplomi (pikes, &c.) 55 



Isospondyli (salmon, herring, &c.) 56 



E ventognathi (carps) Gl 



14. Nematoguathi (cat-fishes) 62 



15. Apodes (eels) 63 



16. Cycloganoidei (amias) 63 



17. Rhomboganoidei (gar-pikes) 64 



18. Selachostomi (paddle-fish) 64 



19. Chondrostei (sturgeons) 64 



VI. ELASMOBRAXCHIATES 65 



20. Holocephali (chimseras) 65 



21. Rai (skates and rays) 66 



22. Squali (sharks) 67 



VII 



