BOOMSLANGS AND THEIR HABITS. 151 
Once a Boomslang seizes its prey, it is loth to let go. Holding 
on, it makes no effort to Tswallow or constrict its victim. It 
in 
Fic, 63.—A brown variety of Boomslang dissected to show how the 
eggs lie. Theseeggs are fully developed, and were being laid when 
the snake was killed to obtain this picture. The shapeless- 
looking white substance about the eggs is fatty tissue. 
knows only too well the power of the fluid which is distilled by 
the glandsinits head. It is well aware that the venom will rapidly 
reduce the struggling prey to a limp, dead mass, easy to swallow. 
