x j v TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PART II. REPTILES AND BATRACHIANS. 

 BY FREDERICK W. TRUE. 



Page. 



E. THE ALLIGATOR AND THE CROCODILE: 



33. The Alligator and the Crocodile 141 



F. TORTOISES, TURTLES, AND TERRAPINS: 



34. The Marine Turtles iu general 147 



35. The Loggerhead Turtle 147 



36. The Hawk's-bill Turtles 149 



37. The Green Turtles 150 



38. The Soft- shelled tortoises 152 



39. The Snapping Turtles 153 



40. The Musk Tortoises 154 



41. The Fresh-water Terrapins 155 



42. The Diamond-back or Salt-water Terrapin 156 



43. The Pond Tortoises 157 



44. The Box Tortoises 158 



G. THE AMPHIBIANS: 



45. The Bull-frog 159 







PART III. FISHES. 

 BY G. BROWN GOODE. 



WITH DISCUSSIONS OF THE PACIFIC SPECIES BY DAVID 8. JORDAN AND TARLKTON H. BEAN, NOTES ON THE FISHES 

 OF THE GUM' OK MEXICO BY 8ILA8 STEARNS, AND CONTRIBUTIONS FROM JOSEPH W. COLLINS, N. E. ATWOOD, 

 MARSHALL MACDONALD, R. EDWARD EARLL, LUDWIG KUMLIEN, AND OTHER AUTHORITIES. 



H. THE FILE FISHES, PIPE FISHES, AND ANGLERS: 



46. The Ocean Sun Fishes (Ortkayoriscidoe) 169 



47. The Porcupine Fishes (Diodontida) 170 



48. The Bellows-Fish Family (Tetrodontidas) 170 



49. Tuc Trunk Fishes (Ostraciontidw) 170 



50. The File-Fish Family (BalistuUe) 171 



51. The Sea-Horse Family (Hippocampidce) 172 



52. The Pipe- Fish Family (Syngnathidce) 172 



53. The Devil Fishes (AntennarUdas and Maltheidas) 173 



54. The Goose Fish (Lophiue piseatorius) 173 



I. THE FLAT FISHES AND FLOUNDERS: 



56. The American Soles (Soleida) 175 



56. The Plaice (Paralichihya dentatas) 178 



67. The Bastard Halibut (Paralichtltyt maculosw) 182 



58. The Flat Fish or Winter Flounder ( 1'seudopleurontctes americanus) 182 



69. The Flat Fishes ami Soles of the Pacific Coast 184 



60. The Halibut (Hippoylotsus vutyaria) 189 



til. The Sand Dab or Rough Dab (Jlippoglomsoiden platetioides) 197 



<tl. The Greenland Turbot (I'latijsomaticMnj* kippoylowoideti) 197 



<>.'i. The Pole Flounder or Craig Flounder (Glyplocephalua cynogheua) 198 



64. The Spotted Sand Flonnder (Lophopsetta maoulata) 199 



