LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



COLOURED PLATES 



Rat-Snake and Cobras, 



Soft River-Tortoises, . 



The Black Iguana, 



Water-Monitors Robbing a Nest, 



Wall Lizards, 



Chameleons, 



Chimera, .... 



Gurnards, 



Globe-Fish and Coffer-Fish, . 



Flat-Fish, 



A Salmon Leap, . 



Blue Shark, 



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Black Caimans at Home, 



Giant Tortoises of the Galapagos Islands, 



Rough-Tailed Agama Basking, 



A Family of Vipers, 



Group of Scaly-Finned Fishes, 



Giant and Common Sturgeons, 



ascidians, 



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Mississippi Alligator, 

 Skull of Crocodile, 

 Pelvis of Dinosaur, 

 Skeleton of Ichthyosaur, . 

 Skeleton of Armoured Dinosaur, 

 Tooth of Plesiosaur, 

 Skull of Cyamodus, 

 Skull of Flying Dragon, . 

 Vertebra of Dinosaur, 

 Vertebra of Fish-Lizard, . 



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Vertebra of Snake, 

 Skeleton of Crocodile, 

 Skull of Extinct Crocodile 

 Spectacled Caiman, 

 Mississippi Alligator, 

 Stumpy Crocodile, 

 Estuarine Crocodile, 

 Nile Crocodile, 

 Sharp- Nosed Crocodile, 

 Long-Nosed Crocodile, 



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