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A Belle of Surinam 370 



Two colored girls of Surinam 37i 



Native Indian girls in the bush 372' 



Indians in a "dugout" near the mouth of the Orinoco 374 



A giant three-toed sloth 37S 



On the banks of the Essequibo, British Guiana 377 



Indian children in the wilds of Guiana 378 



An Indian family of the Guianas 379 



In the great South American Forest 380 



Part of the oyster crop in San Francisco Bay 382 



Beach on western side of San Francisco Bay 383 



Preparing caviar on the Columbia River 384 



A sheepswool sponge of an unusual shape 401 



Humpback salmon from Alaska 402 



Seining carp from a pond, Sandusky River 403 



School of carp swimming against inflowing water, in pond at Port Clinton, Ohio 403 



Salmon ascending a stream in search of spawning ground 404 



Salmon caught in a weir — Alaska 405 



Lake herring stored in a refrigerating plant 406 



Aristotle's catfish on nest 407 



A typical American catfish on nest 408 



Nest of Bowfin, commonly known as the dogfish or mudfish 409 



Floating nest of gymnarchus 409 



Three-spined stickelback 410 



Stickelback male rotating in his nest to make it tubular for the female 410 



Nest of ten-spined stickelback 411 



Diagram of the cocoon which a certain fish builds to retain moisture for itself during 



the dry season 412 



Protopterus annectens 412 



Alligator snapping turtle 414 



Head of the alligator turtle 414 



Plated lizard 415 



Glass "snake" 415 



Two-footed worm lizard 416 



Heads of horned lizards 417 



Regal horned lizard 418 



Pacific horned lizard 418 



I. Fox snake and her eggs. 2. Eggs of the corn snake. 3. .Eggs of the green snake. 



4. Milk snake and her eggs 419 



Charles D. Walcott .426 



George Otis Smith 426 



Frederick Haynes Newell 427 



Arthur P. Davis 427 



Polar bear crossing near ice fields 439 



Character of ice upon which Polar bears are hvmted 441 



Hunting aboard the Laura 441 



Isle of Jan Mayen enveloped in fog 442 



Houses on Jan Mayen built by Austrian Expedition in 1882 442 



Robert E. Peary, U. S. Navy 459, 



Morris K. Jesup 460 



Live bull musk-ox at close quarters — Cape Columbia 461 



Typical Eskimo dog 462 



Egingwah and reindeer at Cape Hubbard 463 



A study in bronze 464 



Akatingwah 465. 



An Eskimo porter 466 



