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crocodilians generally. In Florida it burrows in sand-banks 

 precisely like the Florida crocodile, and builds a mound of 



E. F. Keller, Photo. N. Y. Zoological Park. 



MISSISSIPPI ALLIGATOR, "OLD MOSE." 

 Captured in Indian River, Florida. Length, 12 feet 5 inches. 



earth, moss and grass about two feet high, in which it lays 

 from twenty to forty eggs. 



The Alligator is the only crocodilian I ever heard utter a 

 vocal sound of any kind. The bellow of this animal, how- 

 ever, is well known. Every day, regularly when the whistles 



