CONTENTS XIX 



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 XVIII. — How REPTILES PRODUCE THEIR YOUNG — INCUBA- 

 TION OF EGGS BY THE PYTHONS — OviPAROUS AND 

 OVOVIVIPAROUS SNAKES — ThE NUMBER OF YOUNG 

 PRODUCED — How LONG REPTILES LIVE — ThE BIOG- 

 RAPHY OF A RATTLESNAKE 172 



XIX. — The care of reptiles in captivity — Eccen- 

 tricity OF appetite — Fasting of poisonous 



snakes how the big python was saved — 



Cannibal snakes — Novel method of feeding 



THE KING COBRA — MaLADIES OF CAPTIVE REP- 

 TILES . . . . . . . . .179 



XX. — Peculiarities of poisonous snakes — The art of 



HANDLING VENOMOUS REPTILES — ThE GiLA MON- 

 STER — Experimenting with snake poison — 

 Shedding of the poison fangs — Concerning 

 the hostility of poisonous reptiles — Surgi- 

 cal OPERATION ON A COBRA — COMPOSITION OF 

 SNAKE POISON : ITS EFFECTS — ANTITOXIN . . 189 



XXI. — Collecting reptiles — How water-snakes are 

 CAUGHT — Difficulties in capturing lizards — 

 Hunting the local reptiles — Where rep- 

 tiles may be found — The time to collect — 



Hunting at night 196 



XXII.— Intelligence of reptiles — Training alligators 

 — The story of Selima — Do snakes swallow 

 their young? — Giant tortoises — The last 

 survivors of the reptilian age . . . 205 

 Index 213 



