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only Crotaline snake that lays eggs. Ditmars cites a case of death 

 in less than ten minutes after an eight-foot bushmaster had bitten a 



man. 





Fig. 178. Cotton mouth (water) moccasin, Agkistrodon piscivorus. (Courtesy of 



Antivenin Institute of America.) 



The. Jer-de- Lance {Lachesis lanceolatus) Is found ranging from 

 Southern Mexico into South America. On the Islands of Martinique 

 and Guadeloupe it is much feared by workers on sugar plantations. 



In Honduras, the " barba amarilla " or yellow beard, an ally of 



Fig. 179. Copperhead snake, Agkistrodon mokasen. (Courtesy of Antivenin Institute 



of America.) 



