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GLEANINGS FROM N ATI' UK. 



body when discovered. 

 one of the "snake lies 



This, no doubt, sounds like 

 referred to above, but the- 

 green snake, with the 

 mark of the black one's 

 teeth upon its body, was 

 [reserved in alcohol. 

 and is yet in the writer's 

 collection. 



In the second in- 

 stance a pupil brought 

 in a king snake, Oj>/>>- 

 bolus getulus sayi (Hoi- 

 brook), 12 inches in 

 length, which had pro- 

 truding from its month 

 four inches of the tail 

 of a common garter 

 snake, Eutainia $?'//"//> 

 (L.). The latter was 13 

 inches in length and 

 the front nine inches of 

 its body was within 

 that of its captor. "\Vhen 

 taken the king snake 

 tried to disgorge its 

 prey but his gartership 

 was too deeply lodged. 

 The two were quickly 

 consigned to a bottle 

 of alcohol there to serve 

 as a forcible illustration of the fact that the king snake 

 is in reality both a king and a cannibal among its kind. 



Fig. 6 An Illustrated " Snake Lie." 



