LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 
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Rat-Snake and Cobras, ..... 
Soft River-Tortoises, ...... 
The Black Iguana, ...... 
Water-Monitors Robbing a Nest, .... 
Wall Lizards, ....... 
Chameleons, ....... 
Chimera, ........ 
Gurnards, ....... 
Globe-Fish and Coffer-Fish, .... 
Flat-Fish, ....... 
A Salmon Leap, ....... 
Blue Shark, ....... 
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Black Caimans at Home, .... 
Giant Tortoises of the Galapagos Islands, 
Rough-Tailed Agama Basking, 
A Family of Vipers, ..... 
Group of Scaly-Finned Fishes, 
Giant and Common Sturgeons, 
Ascidians, ...... 
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REPTILES 
Mississippi Alligator, 
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Vertebra of Snake, 
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Skull of Crocodile, 
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Skeleton of Crocodile, 
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Pelvis of Dinosaur, 
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Skull of Extinct Crocodile, 
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Skeleton of Ichthyosaur, . 
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Spectacled Caiman, 
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Skeleton of Armoured Dinosaur, . 
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Mississippi Alligator, 
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Tooth of Plesiosaur, 
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Stumpy Crocodile, 
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Skull of Cyamodus, 
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Estuarine Crocodile, 
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Skull of Flying Dragon, . 
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Nile Crocodile, 
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Vertebra of Dinosaur, 
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Sharp-Nosed Crocodile, 
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Vertebra of Fish-Lizard, . 
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Long-Nosed Crocodile, 
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