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change, eventually developing into uniform chocolate or light 
purplish brown, which is eminently suitable, blending perfectly 
So long as they do not slip their heads from between your fingers you are safe. 
A FEW BOOMSLANGS JUST CAPTURED. 
Fic. 62.—This is how to hold live venomous snakes. 
with the earth, dead leaves, branches, stones, etc., over and 
through which they hunt their prey. When the skin of a brown 
variety of Boomslang is distended, most of the scales are seen to 
