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the striking attitude was taken from a specimen 

 confined in a packing-case, with surroundings made 

 to look realistic previous to his incarceration. 

 The water-tank method of photographing grass-snakes 

 has already been referred to. The writer, however, 

 has secured several good results in a packing-case. 

 The figure of Coronella Icevis given emphasises the 

 extraordinary difference, which, it must be admitted, 

 is more photographic than real, between the appear- 

 ance of a snake with a fresh skin and a snake with 

 an old one. 





