ive much-used food fishes of the sea, and
five fresh-water food-fishes.

4. What are some necessary characteristics of a
game-fish? Mention a well-known salt-water game
fish, and two fresh-water ones.

5. Describe the nest of some local fish, giving
location, size, etc.

E. INVERTEBRATES

(EITHER of the following)

a. Insects and Spiders

1. How may mosquitoes be exterminated?

2. Collect, preserve and identify ten butterflies,
five moths, ten other insects, and three spiders.

3. Describe the habit that certain ants have of
caring for plant-lice or aphids which secrete
honey-dew.

4. Describe the life-history of one of our
solitary wasps. (See "Wasps Social and Solitary,"
by George W. and Elizabeth G. Peckham; Houghton
Mifflin Co.)

5. Describe the life of a hive or colony of honey
bees. (See "The Life of the Bee," by Maurice
Maeterlinck, Dodd Mead Co.)

b. Sea Shore Life

1. Name five invertebrates used as food and state
where they are found.

2. What is the food of the starfish? How are
starfish destroyed?

3. Name twenty invertebrates which you have seen
and give the locality where they were found.

4. Name five invertebrates that live in the water
only and five that burrow in the mud or sand.

5. What invertebrate was eaten by the Indians and
its shell used in making wampum? Where have you
seen this animal?

GENERAL REFERENCES

A. MAMMALS

"Life-Histories of Northern Animals," 2 vols., Ernest Thompson Seton,
Scribner.

"American Animals," Stone, Witmer and Wm. E. Cram, Doubleday Page.

"American Natural History, Vol. I, Mammals," Wm. T. Hornaday, Scribner.

"Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers," John Burroughs, Houghton, Mifflin.

"Kindred of the Wild," C.G.D. Roberts, Doubleday Page.

"Animals, Their Relation and Use to Man," C.D. Wood, Ginn and Co.

"Popular Natural History," J.G. Wood, Winston.

B. REPTILES

"Reptile Book," Raymond L. Ditmars, Doubleday Page.

"The Poisonous Snakes of North America," Leonhard Stejnegar, Report U.
S. National Museum, 1893.

C. AMPHIBIANS

"The Frog Book," Mary Cynthia Dickerson, Doubleday Page.

"Manual of Vertebrates of the Northern United Stat