REESE] BREEDING HABITS OF FLORIDA ALLIGATOR 387 
12st LS WAL 
Fic. 3.—A typical alligator’s nest, made chiefly of grass. The guide is 
feeling for eggs without disturbing the outside of the nest. Being made of 
the same material as the background, the nest does not stand out very sharply, 
though in nature the contrast is somewhat more marked, owing to the fact 
that the surrounding grass is green while +he grass of which the nest is built 
is dead and brown. 
- Fic. 4—An alligator’s nest, somewhat smaller than the one represented 
in Fig. 3, built chiefly of flags. The nest has been opened to show the irregu- 
larly arranged mass of eggs inside. The size and shape of the egg is shown 
by the one in the guide’s hand. i 
