﻿Smithsonian 
  Report, 
  1943. 
  -Cochran 
  

  

  Plate 
  16 
  

  

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  1. 
  Australian 
  copperhead 
  (Denisonia 
  superba). 
  Color: 
  brown 
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   Length: 
  6 
  feet. 
  Range: 
  southeastern 
  Australia 
  and 
  Tasmania. 
  

   (Courtesy 
  Bulletin 
  of 
  the 
  Antivenin 
  Institute.) 
  

  

  black 
  above, 
  the 
  head 
  usually 
  coppery. 
  

   Dangerously 
  poisonous; 
  not 
  aggressive. 
  

  

  2. 
  Brown 
  snake 
  (Demansia 
  teitilis). 
  Color: 
  light 
  brown 
  or 
  gray 
  above, 
  white 
  below; 
  young 
  specimens 
  

   ringed 
  with 
  black. 
  Length: 
  5 
  feet. 
  Range: 
  widely 
  distributed 
  throughout 
  Australia. 
  Extremely 
  poisonous; 
  

   not 
  aggressive. 
  (Courtesy 
  Bulletin 
  of 
  the 
  Antivenin 
  Institute.) 
  

  

  