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CONTENTS 



CHAPTER XXXVI.— ORDER OF CROCODILES AND ALLIGATORS 



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 CROCODILIA 317 



Synopsis op the Crocodilians 



Page I Crocodile Family 319 



. 317 I American Species of Crocodilians . . 320 



CHAPTER XXXVIL— ORDER OF TORTOISES, TERRAPINS, AND TURTLES 



CHELONIA 323 



Synopsis op the Order op Tortoises and 



Turtles 324 



Tortoise Family 324 



Mud-Terrapin Family 326 



Smooth-Shelled Terrapins .... 326 



Snapping Terrapins 

 Sopt-Shelled "Turtles" 

 Hard-Shelled Sea Turtles 

 Leathery-Shelled Sea Turtles 



. 328 

 . 329 

 . 330 

 . 331 



CHAPTER XXXVHL— ORDER OF LIZARDS 

 CHAPTER XXXIX.— ORDER OF SERPENTS 



LACERTILIA 333 

 OPHIDIA 337 



General Characters op Serpents . . 337 



Food of Serpents 338 



Popular Questions and Misapprehensions 339 

 Largest Species op Serpents . . . 340 



Harmless Snakes op the United States . 343 

 Poisonous Snakes op North America . 347 

 Species op Rattlesnakes .... 349 

 Snake Poisons, and their Treatment . . 353 



BOOK IV— AMPHIBIANS 



CHAPTER XL.— INTRODUCTION TO THE CLASS OF AMPHIBIANS . . . .359 

 General Characters op Amphibians . . 359 | Bird's-Eye View op the Amphibians . . 360 



CHAPTER XLL— ORDER OF FROGS AND TOADS 



ECAUDATA 361 



Family op Water Frogs 

 Tree-Fhog Family 



362 I Toad Family 



363 I ToNGUELEss Frogs 



364 

 364 



CHAPTER XLIL— ORDER OF TAILED AMPHIBIANS 



Family op Salamanders 

 Newts, or Tritons 

 Family op Amphiumas . 



. 366 

 . 368 

 . 369 



URODELA 366 



Free-Gilled SalamandiJrs .... 370 

 Two-Legged Salamanders .... 370 

 Order of Worm-Like Amphibians . . 371 



BOOK V— FISHES 



CHAPTER XLIIL— INTRODUCTION TO THE CLASS OF FISHES 



Fishery Industries and Fish Propagation 376 ] The Orders op Living Fishes 

 Distribution of Eggs and Live Fish . . 377 



375 

 378 



CHAPTER XLIV.— ORDER OF THE CONNECTING-LINK FISHES 

 CHAPTER XLV.— ORDER OF THE SPINY-FINNED FISHES 



SIRENOIDEI 380 

 ACANTHOPTERI 382 



Basses and Sunpishes . . . 382 



Sea-Bass Family 385 



Perch and Pike-Perch Family . . . 386 



Miscellaneous Spiny-Finned Fishes . . 388 



Snapper Family 391 



Odd Fishes op the Spiny-Finned Order . 392 



CHAPTER XLVL— ORDER OF PIKES HAEPWMI 394 



