INDEX 
Abdominal aorta and branches, 
212 
Abdominal ribs, 80 
Acetabulum, 85 
Air chamber of egg, 228 
Albumen of egg, 229, 230 
Allantois, 299, 300, 328 
Alligator, 6 
abundance of, 8 
American, 3 
and cane rat, 28 
and muskrat, 28 
attack from, 14 
bellowing of, 18 
catching of, 34 
cave of, 12 
Chinese, 38 
Cyanocephalus, 110 
daylight hunting of, 33 
dealers in, 34 
derivation of name of, 40 
differs from crocodile, 7 
digging from cave, 33 
distribution of, 10 
economic importance of, 26 
eggs used as food, 35 
feeding of, 12 
fire hunting of, 32 
habitat of, 8 
hatching of, for sale, 35 
hibernation of, 12, 13 
hides, annual output of, 28 
for card cases, etc., 30 
chief centers for, 27 
damaged in removal, 31 
Floridian, 28, 29 
highest priced, 32 
length and width of, 30 
from Louisiana, 28, 29, 30 
methods of cutting, 31 
Mexican, 29, 30 
removal of, 31 
salting of, 31 
shipment of, 31 
America, 27, 28 
from Southern States, 28 
varieties of, 29 
29 
value to hunter of, 28 
hole, 11 
hunting, 32 
Joe, 9 
killing of, 33 
for sport, 27 
laws for protection of, 28 
leather, first used, 26 
for shoes, 27 
imitation, 32 
present use of, 32 
meat, preparation of, 35 
smoking of, 36 
use as focd, 35 
mississippiensis, 3, 7 
raw hides, selling of, 32 
sale of live, 34 
sinensis, 3, 16 
the stuffing of, 34 
swimming of, 13, 14 
tanned hides, sale of, 32 
teeth, sale of, 34 
value of, 34 
trail, I1, 13 
unknown to ancients, 40 
use of tail, 14 
value of live, 34 
Alligatoride, 1 
278, 290, 334 
Ampulle, 149 
Ancestry, 4 
Annulus tympanicus, 149 
349 
from South and Central 
value of different sizes of, 28, 
Amnion, 236, 247, 251, 259, 266, 
267, 268, 269, 270, 274, 275, 
