PHOTO BY E. R. SANBORN, 



COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY W, T. HORNADAY 



FLORIDA CROCODILE. 

 Female specimen, about 10 feet long, in the New York Zoological Park. 



most of the species of big game to be found 

 in this country. Of the thousands of per- 

 sons who have called here and inspected 

 them in the most earnest way, many have 

 looked at the head of an elk and asked, 

 "What is that, a moose?' or at the head of 

 a deer, and asked, "Is that an elk?" Or at 

 the head of a mountain sheep and asked, 



"What is that, a goat?" I have often been 

 amused, and in other cases saddened when 

 looking at a cage of wolves, or foxes, or 

 other animals in the Zoological Park, by 

 hearing people ask questions of one an- 

 other, or of the keepers, as to the names 

 of these animals. Many of these people 

 know Greek and Latin and have "done" 



DRAWN BY J, CARTER BEARD. 



THE COMMON FLYING-FISH. 



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COPYRIGHT, 1904} BY W, T, HORNADAY. 



