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beauty. This i* tli,- Ci KITCOCC, more familiarly known l,y id.. | M >pnlar till.- of Br-imA8T*B, 

 v lAchtsi* mulus.) 



Mr. Wat. n. ,n. who h:i.s in.-i.l.-ntally m.-iilimi.-.! this Snak.- in In U .imlrringH," baa 

 kindly s'iit in,- the following information about this t.-riiM.- .-r.-atuiv : Tin- Mu.shmasterwill 

 sonwtinn's ivarh fourteen ff-t in length. Tin- Dutch g-.ivi- it tin- ii:un> of Hii.shma.Mt. 

 account of its IK>\VTH of U*t ruction, and being the largest poiaooon- >nak> di>. \ered. It 

 still continues to huv.- tin- sanu? nume among tin- mlmuM*, of Hriti>h (iuijina. Its Indian 

 name is COUANACOITIII. Ii is a Ix-autiful STJWIII. ili^pla\ imj all tin- prismatiR colon w ln-n 

 iilive, but th'V ilis;ip]H.ar aft.-r .l.-ath. All th.-,- tin--.- >p,..-i,--. v ih.- Hii-l. Lil>arri, and 



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Coulacanara) inhabit the trees as well as the ground, but as far as I could perceive, they never 

 mount the trees with a full stomach." 



THE WATKB MOCCASIX (Aneistrodon pixciroru*}. This reptile is restricted to the region 

 between the Carolina* and the Gulf, and the valleys of the Mississippi River. This is 

 emphatically a Water Snake. This ref tile is, perhaps, the most dreaded of any in this 

 country. It has the reputation of attacking unprovoked any one that may be in reach a 

 circumstance that is true of very few animals throughout the world. The Southern negroes 

 are much exposed to its venom in tin- w.-t rice lands, where it abounds. It is very stout, and 

 in color and markings very forbidding ; the length being about nineteen in<-h-s. 



Another species is recorded as a native in Imlianola, Texas, called A. pugnax. The 



Black Moccasin (A. atrofutcut) is found in the mountains of North Carolina. 

 T- m. is. 



