INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS. 



[N.B. — For list of ilhisirations in Addenda, see p. xv.] 



A. 



Animal ladder of life ..... 

 Animals that eat snakes .... 

 Applying the test to a snake— a kafir superstition 

 Artificial respiration ..... 

 Atractaspis adder and skulls of . 



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Bacteria — diagrams 

 Berg adder 



Bibron's adder . 



Bird that eats snakes — Jackal Buzzard 



Brain of man in section 



showing grey matter 



cells .... 



and spinal cord 

 Boomslang — dissection of, showing eggs 

 Boomslang— head dissected . 

 Boomslang — head of . 

 Boomslang swallowing another 

 Boomslangs — a handful of . 

 Boomslangs — how to hold them 

 Boy and snakes . 

 Bronchial tubes . 

 Brown House snake 

 Bush snake 



Cannibal Boomslang .... 

 Cast skin of a snake .... 

 Casting its skin — Boomslang in process of 

 Centipede 



Chart showing snake distribution 

 Circulation of the blood 



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