. Hunting and fishing in Florida : including a key to the water birds known to occur in the State . 64 IirXTIXCi AXl) 1-ISIIIN<J IX FLORIDA. her and early October, and the youno- are ]:i<)rn in April andearly ^lay. The Indians burn the prairies early in the year, and deer areattracted to the bnrns h\ the Noung and tender new |L;rass. It isby nsing such methods and beini;- expert hunters that they killL;-reat numbers of these animals : but I am ,L!;lad to say but \-erylittle of the meat is wasted: what they do not sell, they smoke andkeep for their own use. Note.—Two of the pliotosraplis
. Hunting and fishing in Florida : including a key to the water birds known to occur in the State . 64 IirXTIXCi AXl) 1-ISIIIN<J IX FLORIDA. her and early October, and the youno- are ]:i<)rn in April andearly ^lay. The Indians burn the prairies early in the year, and deer areattracted to the bnrns h\ the Noung and tender new |L;rass. It isby nsing such methods and beini;- expert hunters that they killL;-reat numbers of these animals : but I am ,L!;lad to say but \-erylittle of the meat is wasted: what they do not sell, they smoke andkeep for their own use. Note.—Two of the pliotosraplis of deer were not taken in rhe full-page represents agroup ni uild deer on the authors preserves in Massadiusetts. ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES. ALLIGATORS. The largest alligator I have ever seen in Florida was killed nearEnterprise, on the St. John River, and measured fourteen feet withina fraction of an inch. I have killed several alligators over twelvefeet in length, and one which measured thirteen feet two inches,. ALLIGATOR. which I shot on the St. John River near the mouth of the WikivaCreek. Large alligators ha\e of late years become rather scarce,although nearly ever}^ 3^ear I kill one or more which will exceedeleven feet. 66 HUNTING AND FISHING IN FLORIDA. One often hears marvelous stories regarding the size of alHgatorskilled by this or that hunter ; but I do not believe that there existsto-day in Florida an alligator which will actually measure seven-teen feet in length. The head of an alligator killed on the River in 1893, purchased by Mr. W. V. Rhoads, ofRockledge, Florida, is so much larger than any specimens I haveever seen that I did not for a moment discredit his statement thatthe animal measured when killed a trifle over sixteen feet inlength. The alligator lays its eggs in the sand, where they are hatched bythe heat of the sun, and the young alligators then collect in somesmall hole where the mother keeps watch over them. The
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