﻿DANGEROUS 
  REPTILES 
  

  

  By 
  Doris 
  M. 
  Cochkan 
  

  

  Associate 
  Curator, 
  Division 
  of 
  Reptiles 
  and 
  Batrachians 
  

  

  U. 
  S. 
  National 
  Museum 
  

  

  [With 
  23 
  plateg] 
  

   CONTENTS 
  

  

  Page 
  

  

  Introduction 
  ._ 
  278 
  

  

  Poisonous 
  reptiles 
  279 
  

  

  The 
  New 
  World 
  279 
  

  

  The 
  United 
  States 
  of 
  America 
  279 
  

  

  The 
  coral 
  snakes 
  280 
  

  

  The 
  pit 
  vipers 
  281 
  

  

  The 
  timber 
  rattler 
  284 
  

  

  The 
  diamoDdback 
  rattler 
  284 
  

  

  The 
  pigmy 
  rattlesnakes 
  284 
  

  

  The 
  water 
  moccasin 
  285 
  

  

  The 
  copperhead 
  285 
  

  

  Distribution 
  of 
  our 
  poisonous 
  snakes 
  286 
  

  

  The 
  Gila 
  monster 
  287 
  

  

  Latin 
  America 
  287 
  

  

  The 
  coral 
  snakes 
  288 
  

  

  The 
  pit 
  vipers 
  288 
  

  

  The 
  rattlesnakes 
  288 
  

  

  The 
  cantil 
  289 
  

  

  The 
  bushmaster 
  289 
  

  

  The 
  fer-de-lance 
  or 
  barba 
  amarilla 
  290 
  

  

  The 
  palm 
  vipers 
  290 
  

  

  The 
  jumping 
  viper 
  291 
  

  

  The 
  hog-nosed 
  vipers 
  291 
  

  

  Other 
  pit 
  vipers 
  291 
  

  

  The 
  rear-fanged 
  snakes 
  292 
  

  

  The 
  yellow-bellied 
  sea 
  snake 
  292 
  

  

  The 
  Mexican 
  beaded 
  lizard 
  293 
  

  

  The 
  Old 
  World 
  293 
  

  

  Europe 
  and 
  northern 
  Asia 
  294 
  

  

  The 
  common 
  viper 
  and 
  its 
  allies 
  294 
  

  

  Orsini's 
  and 
  Renard's 
  vipers 
  295 
  

  

  The 
  asp, 
  Lataste's, 
  and 
  the 
  long-nosed 
  vipers 
  295 
  

  

  The 
  blunt-nosed 
  viper 
  and 
  its 
  allies 
  296 
  

  

  • 
  Reprinted, 
  with 
  extensive 
  revision 
  and 
  additional 
  plates, 
  from 
  Smithsonian 
  War 
  Background 
  Studies, 
  

   No. 
  10, 
  entitled 
  "Poisonous 
  Reptiles 
  of 
  the 
  world: 
  A 
  wartime 
  handbook." 
  

  

  275 
  

  

  