The Reptile Book 



Plate CXXVH 



A RAT'rLF.SN'AKK " I)E\'» 

 A deep cleft in a leilge in the niouniains of Sullivan Ccninly. New \(>rk. whert- large numbers uf tin- limber Ratllcsnake. Crotolus horridus, 



gather to bask in the autumn sun and to hibernate 



A HAUNT OF THK niAMOXD RATTT.KSXAKK 

 A road ihrouKh the hammocks in South Carolina. The big Southern rattlesnake, ('rolalus adamayiteus, often crossed this road at night 

 The lagoon on the left teemed with water moccasias. Aiuistrodon piscivorus. In the immediate N-icinity, the WTiter, and an assistant 

 capturwl over three hundred snakes — of various species — in less than two weeks* time. 



