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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo17amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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486 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL fifteen feet in length. Here is an in- stance of crudely recorded dimensions: I had shot, and almost certainly killed, a large specimen under conditions of wind and depth of water that made it impossible to secure it, the body sink- side and estimated its length by the known dimensions of his boat. He re- ported it as fourteen feet, or more! In August of the present year, my wife and I spent our vacation at the Onslow Eod and Gun Club, on New
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Dim recesses of secluded swamps and bayous, where the trees are festooned with the gray Span- ish moss, and a coating of duckweed and green algae covers the water, are favorite haunts of the alli- gator. Orton Pond harbors many large specimens ing at the shot. I had a clear profile view of the top of the head from eye to snout, and I feel certain that it varied but a few inches, one way or the other, from nine and one half feet in length. As I learned later, the body floated within a day or two (I had to leave the place before this could occur, or I would have been on the lookout myself) and a passing fisherman ran his skifp along- Eiver, in southeastern North Carolina. We had some very interesting and fa- miliar experiences with alligators, par- ticularly with small ones, although sev- eral of large size were seen. On one occasion, with our canoe lying station- ary in a gut deep in the marsh that reeked with alligator sign, we could hear the grunting and splashing of vounff ones close at hand. We saw

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  • bookdecade:c190
  • bookcentury:c100
  • bookauthor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • booksubject:Natural_history
  • bookpublisher:New_York_American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • bookcontributor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History_Library
  • booksponsor:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library
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