Quantities — Prices — Annual Supply — Upward of a 

 .Million Skins — Increasing- Quantities — Com- 

 parative Tables — Fluctuations in Value — Ship- 

 ments from Alaska in 1912 — Relative Dur- 

 ability of Different Furs — Influence of 

 Fashions on Quantities and Prices 59-68 



The Tariff — Imports and Exports, Restrictions — 

 -John Jacob Astor's Objections to the Tariff of 

 1807— The Act of October 3, 1913— Imports 

 and Exports of Furs and Skins in 1912 — 

 Restrictions — Closed Seasons 69-73 



Fur Traders Lexicon — English, French, German 

 and Spanish Names of the Different Animals 

 and Furs 74-84 



PART II. 



Classification — The Animal Kingdom — The Verte- 

 brata— Orders of the Class ^Mammalia — 

 Genera and Families of each Order — Alpha- 

 betical List of Species — Charts and Tables. . . 85-110 



The Mammals — Their Distinguishing Characteris- 

 tics — Dentition and Structural Peculiarities — 

 Nature, Habits and Habitats — Points of Simi- 

 larity of Different Orders — Lines of Demark- 

 ation — Carnivores 111-116 



The Bear Family — Different from all other Car- 

 nivorous Animals — Allied to the Dog — Various 

 Species 117-122 



The Cat Family — ]\Iost Powerfully Armed of all 

 Mammals — Domestic Cats — Various Species 

 of Wild Cats — Jaguarondi — Leopards and 

 Leopard Cats — The Lynx Tribe — The Lion — 

 Jaguar — Puma and Tiger 123-145 



The Civet Family — Stand Between the Hyaena and 

 Cat Families — True Civets — Their Commercial 

 Value— The Genets — Fossa — Paradoxure — 

 Rasse — Ichneumon and Mungoose 146-150 



The Dog Family — Its Origin — Domestic Species — 

 Wild Dogs— Types— Plates— The Foxes— Dif- 

 ferent Species and Varieties — Range of the 

 Red Fox and its Color Variations — Silver. 

 Arctic and Polar Foxes — Other Species — The 

 Jackal — The Wolves, and their Distribution. .151-170 



The Hyaenas — Separate Family — Distinguished 

 from the Dog and Wolf — Different Species — 

 The Aard AVolf 171-172 



The Weasel Family — Composed of Six Groups — 

 Widr'jy Differing Onera and Species — Color- 

 ation—The Martens. Minks and Sables— The 

 Polecats— The Weasels— The Otter— The Bad- 

 ger—The Wolverine 173-202 



