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  ANNUAL 
  REPORT 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  1943 
  

  

  Poisonous 
  reptiles 
  — 
  Continued. 
  Page 
  

   The 
  Old 
  World— 
  Continued. 
  

  

  India, 
  China, 
  Japan, 
  and 
  Malaya 
  296 
  

  

  The 
  vipers 
  _ 
  296 
  

  

  The 
  daboia, 
  tic-polonga, 
  or 
  Russell's 
  viper 
  296 
  

  

  The 
  carpet 
  or 
  saw-scaled 
  viper 
  297 
  

  

  The 
  pit 
  vipers 
  297 
  

  

  The 
  mamushi 
  and 
  its 
  relatives 
  297 
  

  

  Bamboo 
  snakes 
  and 
  their 
  allies 
  297 
  

  

  Cobras 
  and 
  kraits 
  298 
  

  

  Indian 
  or 
  spectacled 
  cobra 
  298 
  

  

  The 
  king 
  cobra 
  or 
  hamadryad 
  299 
  

  

  The 
  kraits 
  299 
  

  

  The 
  sea 
  snakes 
  300 
  

  

  Africa 
  300 
  

  

  The 
  vipers 
  301 
  

  

  The 
  night 
  adder 
  or 
  Cape 
  viper 
  301 
  

  

  The 
  puff 
  adder 
  301 
  

  

  The 
  rhinoceros 
  viper 
  301 
  

  

  The 
  Gaboon 
  viper 
  _ 
  302 
  

  

  The 
  horned 
  adders 
  302 
  

  

  The 
  sand 
  vipers. 
  303 
  

  

  The 
  cobras 
  and 
  their 
  allies 
  303 
  

  

  The 
  ringhals 
  or 
  spitting 
  snake 
  303 
  

  

  The 
  spitting 
  or 
  black-necked 
  cobra 
  304 
  

  

  The 
  black 
  cobra 
  304 
  

  

  The 
  Egyptian 
  cobra 
  or 
  asp 
  304 
  

  

  The 
  Cape 
  cobra 
  305 
  

  

  The 
  water 
  cobras 
  305 
  

  

  The 
  mambas 
  305 
  

  

  The 
  rear-fanged 
  snakes 
  306 
  

  

  The 
  boomslang 
  306 
  

  

  Australia, 
  New 
  Guinea, 
  and 
  the 
  South 
  Pacific 
  islands 
  306 
  

  

  The 
  black 
  snake 
  307 
  

  

  The 
  copperhead 
  snake 
  307 
  

  

  The 
  brown 
  snake 
  308 
  

  

  The 
  tiger 
  snake 
  308 
  

  

  The 
  death 
  adder 
  308 
  

  

  The 
  sea 
  snakes 
  309 
  

  

  Dangerous 
  nonpoisonous 
  reptiles 
  309 
  

  

  North 
  America 
  - 
  309 
  

  

  The 
  American 
  crocodile 
  310 
  

  

  The 
  American 
  alligator 
  310 
  

  

  The 
  alligator-snapper 
  310 
  

  

  The 
  common 
  snapping 
  turtle 
  311 
  

  

  Latin 
  America 
  311 
  

  

  The 
  anaconda 
  - 
  311 
  

  

  The 
  boa 
  312 
  

  

  The 
  Belize 
  crocodile 
  312 
  

  

  The 
  Orinoco 
  crocodile 
  312 
  

  

  The 
  caymans 
  312 
  

  

  Iguanas 
  and 
  other 
  large 
  lizards 
  313 
  

  

  Europe 
  and 
  northern 
  Asia 
  313 
  

  

  