CONTENTS XIX 



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 XVIII.— IIOW REPTILES PRODUCE THEIR YOUNG— INCUBA- 

 TION OF EUCiS BY THE PYTHONS — OVIPAROUS AND 

 OVOVIVIPAROUS SNAKES— The NUMBER OF YOUNG 

 PRODUCED — How LONG REPTILES LIVE — ThE BIOG- 

 RAPHY OF A RATTLESNAKE 1'<'2 



XIX. The care of reptiles in captivity— Eccen- 

 tricity OF appetite — Fasting of poisonous 

 snakes— How the big python was saved— 

 Cannibal snakes— Novel method of feeding 

 THE king cobra— Maladies of captive rep- 

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XX.— Peculiarities of poisonous snakes— The art of 



HANDLING VENOMOUS REPTILES— ThE GiLA MON- 

 STER — Experimenting with snake poison — 

 Shedding of the poison fangs— Concerning 

 the hostility of poisonous reptiles — Surgi- 

 cal OPERATION on A COBRA— COMPOSITION OF 



snake poison : its effects— Antitoxin . . 189 

 XXL— Collecting reptiles— How water-snakes are 

 CAUGHT— Difficulties in capturing lizards- 

 Hunting the local reptiles— Where rep- 

 tiles MAY BE FOUND— The TIME TO COLLECT— 



Hunting at night 196 



XXII.— Intelligence of reptiles— Training alligators 

 —The story of Selima— Do snakes swallow 

 their young f — Giant tortoises— The last 

 survivors of the reptilian age . . . 205 

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