vi CONTENTS 



PAOE 



Mud-Terrapin Family :>-.? 



Smooth-Shelled Terrapins 34 



Snapping Terrapins 39 



Side-Necked Terrapins 41 



SoFT-SlIELLED "TURTLES" 42 



Si \ Tl RTLES 44 



Hard-Shelled Ska Turtles 15 



Leathery-Shelled Sea Turtles 51 



CHAPTER XLII 

 ORDER OF LIZARDS LACERTILIA 52 



CHAPTER XLIII 



ORDER OF SERPENTS OPHIDIA 67 



General Characters 67 



Food of Serpents 70 



populab questions and misapprehensions 72 



Lak(;hst Species op Skkpents 74 



Haumli.^ Snakks op the United States 83 



Poisonous Snakes of North America 04 



Species of Rattlesnakes loo 



Snake Poisons and their Treatment 116 



