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without provocation. Compared with it, the Rattler is a creature 

 of honor, as the latter strikes only for food or in self defense and 

 it almost always sounds a warning before striking. This gives an 

 opportunity for persons who are on the alert to avoid its venomous 

 attack. 



The Copperhead Snake is described as being hazel brown, touched 

 with coppery red; back with a series of fifteen to twenty-five V- 

 shaped blotches; pale yellow, with thirty-five to forty-five dark spots 

 on each side, and the scales arranged in twenty'- three rows. The 

 length is about forty inches, or very rarely more. 



This dangerous reptile is found from the northeastern part of 

 the United States to Wisconsin and southward, mostly in damp 

 places, although not confined to such localities. Fortunately, it 

 is extinct in most of the cultivated districts of this State which 

 have been long settled, and while it is not decreasing rapidly in the 

 wild mountainous parts of the Commonwealth, its numbers are 

 being reduced until it is not to be found in some counties. We have 

 received it from the counties in Pennsylvania listed below: 



Adams County Heintzelman, W. E Orrtanna. 



Allegheny County, Johnson, S., Pittsburg. 



Armstrong County Nil!, T. W., Dayton. 



Allshouse, A. J Leechburg. 



Beaver County, Wright, F. R., Smith's Ferry. 



Reed, G. S Baden. 



Bedford County, Kams, Rev. W. E., Hopewell. 



Berks County, Griesmer, G. B., Spangsville. 



Blair County, Waring, F. R., Tyrone. 



Carbon County ^alt, N. E Weissport. 



Centre County, Williams, G. W. R Lemont. 



Chester County, Laurence, Jno Coatesville. 



Clarion County Kaufman, M. M Clarion. 



Arnold, F. M., Jr., Clarion. 



Clinton County White, A. P., Lock Haven. 



Cumberland County Garber, S. P. , Carlisle. 



Dauphin County, Haas, R. V Lykens. 



Backenstoe, C Fort Hunter. 



Fayette County Lange, W. H Belle Vernon. 



Franklin County Dixon, W. D St. Thomas. 



Hopkins, E. D., Mercersburg. 



De Long, C. A. Mont Alto. 



Fulton County Palmer, A. C Warfordsburg. 



Huntingdon County, Gibbs, E. E. C, Huntingdon. 



Robb, ,T. T Alexandria. 



Moyer, S. F Alexandria. 



Lefford, Wm Huntingdon. 



Indiana County, Wehrle, R. W., Indiana. 



Juniata County, Toder, P. C. , Pleasant View. 



Hoyt, H. J Miffllntown. 



Lancaster County Penrose, L., Drumore. 



