. L'histoire naturelle populaire . Zoologie. ALLIGATORS 422. L'Alligator vit dans le Nord de l'Amérique latine commune, et est abondamment trouvés dans' le Mississippi, les lacs et rivières de la Louisiane et Carolina, et localités semblables. C'est un féroce et dangereux reptile, dans nombre de ses habitudes alimentaires portant une ressemblance étroite pour les crocodiles et les autres membres de la famille. Contrairement au crocodile, cependant, il évite le sel, vcater et est mais rarement vu même près de l'embouchure des rivières, où la marée donne un goût saumâtre à leurs eaux. C'est surtout un mangeur de poissons, hantise des secteurs de l'eau w

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. The popular natural history . Zoology. 422 ALLIGATORS. The Common Alligator inhabits Northern America, and is plentifully found in' the Mississippi, the lakes and rivers of Louisiana and Carolina, and similar localities. It is a fierce and dangerous reptile, in many of its habits bearing a close resemblance to the crocodiles and the other members of the family. Unlike the crocodile, however, it avoids the salt vcater, and is but seldom seen even near the mouths of rivers, where the tide gives a brackish taste to their waters. It is mostly a fish-eater, haunting those portions of the rivers where its prey most abounds, and catching them by diving under a passing shoal, snapping up one or two victims as it passes throu, 'h them, tossing them in the air for the purpose of ejecting the water which has necessarily filled its mouth, catching them adroitly as they fall, and then swallowing them. The eggs of the Alligator are small and numerous. The parent deposits them in the sand of the river side, scratching a hole with her paws, and placing. SCALY LIZARD.—[Zoofoca vivifiafa.) the eggs in a regular layer therein. She then scrapes some sand, dry leaves, grass, and mud over them, smoothes it, and deposits a second layer upon them. These eggs are then covered in a similar manner, and another layer deposited until the mother reptile has laid from fifty to sixty eggs. Although they are hatched by the heat of the sun and the decaying vege- table matter, the mother does not desert her young, but leads them to the water and takes care of them until their limbs are sufficiently strong and their scales sufficiently firm to permit them to roam the waters without assistance. During the winter months the Alligator buries itself in the mud, but a very little warmth is sufficient to make it quit its retreat and come into the open air again. While lively, especially at night, it is a most noisy animal, bellow- ing in so loud a tone and in so singular a cadence that even the nightly c

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