FEEDING SNAKES ON LIVE ANIMALS. 



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If a snake can once be induced to eat of its own accord, there 

 is no further difficulty, for it afterwards feeds freely if the air in 



Fig. II 4. — The Royal Python (Python rcgius) of Senegambia and Sierra Leone. 



its cage is genial and warm. Such a snake, if placed in a cage with 

 others which have previously refused to eat, will often induce 

 them to make a beginning. 



