THE REPTILE BOOK 



PLATE CXXVII 



A RATTLESNAKE " DEN " 



A deep cleft in a ledge in the mountains of Sullivan County, New York, where large numbers of the Timber Rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus, 



gather to bask in the autumn sun and to hibernate 



A HAUNT OF THE DIAMOND RATTLESNAKE 



A road through the hammocks in South Carolina. The big Southern rattlesnake. Crotalus adamanteus, often crossed tlvs road at night 

 The lagoon on the left teemed with water moccasins. A ncistrodon piscivorus. In the immediate vicinity, the writer, and an assistant 

 captured over three hundred snakes of various species in less than two weeks' time. 



