INDEX. 
A. 
Ablabophis genus, 82 
Adaptation of snakes to surround- | 
ings, 41 
Adders, 213 
Aglypha snakes, 80 
Alcohol for snake bite, 325 
Alleged cures for snake bite, 309 
Amblyodipsas, 127 
American snake catcher, 254 
Ammonia cure, 332 
Amplorhinus, 120 
Anatomy of head of venomous 
snake, 25 
Ancestors of birds, 4—8 
Animal ladder of life, 15 
immune, 391 
that eat snakes, 29 
Anti-venene serum, 390 
Anti-venomous serum, 397 
instructions, 424 
Aparallactus, 128 
Apparently dead, hope of recovery, 
432 
Artificial respiration methods, 429- 
431 
Aspidelaps, 165 
Atractaspis adder, 220 
vipers: habits of, 243 
B. 
Back-fanged snake, 118 
snakes, list of, 
128 
Berg adder, 232 
figure of, 240 
another figure of, 242 
habits of, 243 
Bewitched snakes, 278 
I16— 
Bird that eats snakes, figure of, 339 | 
Bitis, key to the species, 216 
Black and yellow sea snake, 156 
fangs of, 157 
Blood, how it is made, 289 
we poison it, 299 
its circulation, 300 
Boodon, 84 
Boomslang, a cannibal, 136 
a man bitten, 141, 147 
another man _ bitten, 
144 
dissected, 152 
effects of being bitten, 
142 
experiments, 145 
that bit Williams, 143 
_ Boomslangs, a handful of, 154 
Animals, how they are rendered © 
and their habits, 148 
are highly venomous, 
140, 146 
just captured, 149 
the fangs of, 141 
what naturalists say, 
138 
Boulenger’s systematic list of 
African snakes, 439-460 
Brain and nervous system, 283 
its functions, 284 
the seat of intelligence, 285 
of a man, 286 
cells showing poison, 287 
and the spinal cord, 288 
Breathing apparatus, 20 
Bruin slang, 170 
Brunton’s first-aid 
401 
Burrowing snakes, 50 
Bush snake, 97 
instruments, 
Cc. 
Calamelaps, 127 
Cannibal boomslang, 264 
cobras, 177 
535 
