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INDEX. 



Cape Cobra, 170 



Captive snakes and birds, 260 



Capturing a python, 63 



Carbolic acid cure, 332 



Catching live snakes, 268 



Caustics, 331 



Causus, key to the species, 215 



Centipede, 312 



Chamaetortus, 120 



Changing the skin, 16 



Chlorophis, 86 



Circulation of blood of snake, 24 



the blood, 297 

 Classification of animal life, i 



what it means, 2 

 Climbing powers of snakes, 37 

 Cobra and meercat, 177 

 mungoose, 37 

 mungoose fight, 177 

 bites children, 171 

 experiences, 172 

 hood-expanding apparatus, 



176 

 in a schoolroom, 180 

 on the watch, 179 

 poison apparatus, 176 

 swallowing puff adder, 178 

 venom symptoms, 367 

 yellow variety, 173 

 Cobras, dentition of, 163 



fed with other snakes, 183 

 hoods, 174 



key to the species, 163 

 synopsis of genera, 162 

 yellow variety, 182 

 Collapse through fear, 394 

 Collecting snakes, 270 



venom from cobra, 371 

 Columbrine venom, 3G6 

 Constriction, 33 

 Coral snakes, 195 

 Cow-milking snakes, 265 

 Cross-marked snake, 122 

 Crust of the earth, 9 

 Curari and snake venom, 436 

 Cures for snake bite, 309 

 whicii kill, 330 



D. 



Dasypeltis, 90 

 Death from cobra bite, iSi 

 Death-head moth, 312 

 Demon adders, 233 

 Dendraspis, 169 



Desmond FitzSimons and his 



snakes, 261 

 Digestive organs of a man, 290 

 Dipsademcrpliina;, 115 



synopsis of S. African genera, 

 no 

 Disgorging prey. 36 

 Dispholidus, 127 

 Distribution of snakes, 12 

 Dried snake \'enom cure, 334 

 Duels with snakes, 27 



E. 



Ears of snakes, 14 

 Eating, tlic science of, 294 

 Egg-breaking mechanism, 104 

 Egg-eating snakes, 102 



eater at work, 105 

 dining, no 



eater robbing a bird's nest, 

 108 



eaters in captivity, 106 



eater's sense of smell, 112 



swallowing process, 106 

 Eggs of snakes, 18 

 Eier vreter, 102 

 Elapechis, 166 

 Elapinaj, 160 

 Elixir of life, 295 

 Enemies of snakes, 26 

 Evolution of birds, 3 



reptiles, 3 

 Exciting incident, 279 

 Exercise, 302 



Expanding power of snake's jaws, 35 

 Experiments, 309 



with alcohol, 325 



with anti- venomous serum, 



witli artificial respiration, 432 

 with cobras, 378 

 with Croft's Tincture, 323 

 with Horniballs Patent Won- 

 derful Extract, 328 

 with permanganate of potash, 



382 

 with Isibiba, 315-322 

 with snake venom, 340 

 on animals, 438 

 Eyes of snakes, 14 



F. 



Fangs of snakes, 23, 344 



for comparison, 36 1 

 Puff Adders, 349 





