536 
Cape Cobra, 170 
figure of, 463 
Captive snakes and birds, 260 
Capturing a python, 63 
Carbolic acid cure, 332 
Catching live snakes, 268 
Caustics, 331 
Causus, key to the species, 215 
Centipede, 312 
Chametortus, 120 
Changing the skin, 16 
Chlorophis, 86 
Circulation of blood of snake, 24 
the blood, 297 
Classification of animal life, 1 
what it means, 2 
Climbing powers of snakes, 37 
Cobra and meercat, 177 
mungoose, 37 
mungoose fight, 177 
bites children, 171 
experiences, 172 
hood-expanding apparatus, 
176 
in a schoolroom, 180 
on the watch, 179 
poison apparatus, 176 
swallowing puff adder, 178 
venom symptoms, 367 
yellow variety, 173 
Cobras, dentition of, 163 
fed with other snakes, 183 
hoods, 174 
key to the species, 163 
synopsis of genera, 162 
yellow variety, 182 
Collapse through fear, 394 
Collecting snakes, 270 
venom from cobra, 371 
Columbrine venom, 366 
Constriction, 33 
Coral snakes, 195 
Cow-milking snakes, 265 
Cross-marked snake, 122 
Crust of the earth, 9 
Curare and snake venom, 434 
Cures for snake bite, 309 
which kill, 330 
D. 
Dasypeltis, 90 
Death from cobra bite, 181 
Death-head moth, 312 
Demon adders, 233 
Dendraspis, 169 
INDEX, 
Desmond FitzSimons and _ his 
snakes, 261 
Digestive organs of a man, 290 
Dipsademerphine, 115 
synopsis of S. African genera, 
116 
Disgorging prey, 36 
Dispholidus, 127 
Distribution of snakes, 12 
Dried snake venom cure, 334 
Duels with snakes, 2 
E. 
Ears of snakes, 14 
Eating, the science of, 294 
Egg-breaking mechanism, 104 
Egg-eating snakes, 102 
eater at work, 105 
dining, 110 
eater robbing a bird’s nest, 
108 
eaters in captivity, 106 
eater’s sense of smell, 112 
swallowing process, 106 
Eggs of snakes, 18 
Eier vreter, 102 
Elapechis, 166 
Elapine, 160 
Elixir of life, 295 
Enemies of snakes, 26 
Evolution of birds, 3 
reptiles, 3 
Exciting incident, 279 
Exercise, 302 
Expanding power of snake’s jaws, 35 
Experiments, 309 
with alcohol, 325 
with anti-venomous 
413 
with artificial respiration, 436 
with cobras, 378 
with Crofts Tincture, 323 
with Horniballs Patent Won- 
derful Extract, 328 
with permanganate of potash, 
382 
with Sebiba or Zibiba, 315- 
322 
with snake venom, 340 
Eyes of snakes, 14 
serum, 
F. 
Fangs of snakes, 23, 344 
for comparison, 361 
Puff Adders, 349 
