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Identifier: introductiontozo00dave Title: Introduction to zoology; a guide to the study of animals, for the use of secondary schools; Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 Davenport, Gertrude Anna Crotty, 1866- Subjects: Zoology Publisher: New York, Macmillan company London, Macmillian and co., ltd. Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library


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Text Appearing Before Image: FIG. 259. — Eutfenia, garter-snake, dorsal view. Photo, by E. R. D. absence of eyelids. Like other reptiles, the snakes arechiefly tropical, but inhabit also the temperate zones. Theyfeed on living animals. The family Colubridae2 includes the great majority ofour common non-venomous snakes, such as the garter-snake,3 water-snake, black-snake, milk-snake, and spread-ing adder. Allied are the boas of South America and thepythons of India, which attain the length of six metres or c!0ts, serpent. 2 coluhra, serpent. 3 Fig. 259. THE LIZARD AND 77\s ALLIED more. Not being poisonous their bite is not dangerous,l>ut they attack large birds and even medium-sized mam-mals and crush them to death in the folds of their body. The family Elapidae: includes the large venomous ser-pents of the East, the cobra of the East Indies, and the aspof the Egyptians. The bite of these serpents is quickly m \ i \ , i IR^^fevfck BMMb.

Text Appearing After Image: Fi<;. 2HO. — Elapx coralluia, a harlequin snake of South America allied to thel)ead-snake of the South. From Standard Natural History, after Brehin. fatal to man. To this family belongs also the bead-snakeof our Southern States, which is however harmless (Fig.260). The Crotalidae 2 include the rattlesnakes, characteristic ofAmerica.3 Of this family the most dangerous is the water- . an unknown snake of the ancients. /, clapper. 3 Figs. 261, 262. 278 ZOOLOGY


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