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INDEX. 



Snake venom, how it is sucked up, 



304 

 how to collect it, 

 372 

 • its nature and effects, 



342 

 Snake-killing lorn cat, 31 

 Snakes and lizards, 13 



and their mates, 266 



can they fascinate their 



prey, 256 

 changing their skin, 16 

 eating eggs, 32 

 hatching, 463 

 how to capture them, 268- 



269 

 flow to collect and preserve 



them, 270 

 how to feed them, 271 

 how to pickle them, 276 

 how to stuff them, 276 

 in captivity, 282 

 in houses, 34 

 not tenacious of life, 47 

 sucking eggs, 33 

 swallowing their prey, 39 

 their uses, 25 

 Solenoglypha, 213 

 Solid toothed snakes, 80 

 Special first aid instrument, 401 

 Spirits of ancestors in snakes, 



279 

 Spuug slang, 170 

 Stockholm tar cure, 328 

 Strychnine cure, 332 

 Surroundings of snakes, 43 

 Symptoms of cobra venom poison- 

 ing, 367 

 viper venom poison- 

 ing, 369-370 

 Systematic list of S. African snakes, 

 441-462 



Tanjore pills, quinine, etc., cure, 333 

 Tarbophis, 119 

 Teeth of snakes, 22, 344 

 Thelotornis, 126 

 Three-cornered snakes, 96 

 Tongues of snakes, 14, 361 

 Treatment of snake bite, 400 

 secondary, 428 



Trimerorhinus, 121 

 Tropidonotus, 82 

 Typhlops snakes, 31 



heads and tails, 54 



list of species, 32 



skulls, 51 



V. 



Vagina dentis, 346 

 Venom, Colubrine, 366 



different kinds, 366 



effects on non-venomous 



snakes, 380 

 effects on other snakes, 377 

 how it gets in and out of 



the blood, 307 

 how it is absorbed, 388 

 how it is discharged, 348 

 how it poisons the nerve 



cells, 288 

 how to destroy it, 305 

 is digested, 365 

 its constituents, 355 

 Viperine, 368 

 Venomous snakes and their poisons, 

 342 

 distribution of, 



161 

 synopsis of genera, 

 162 

 Venoms differ in their pathological 



action, 392 

 Vinegar cure, 333 

 Viperidae, 213 

 Vipers, synopsis of genera, 214 



their distribution, 214 

 Viviparous snakes, 19 



W. 



What to do if bitten, 400 



Whip snake, 124 



Why people recover when bitten by 



snakes, 394 

 Williams, the snake catcher, 252 

 with bag of snakes, 255 

 Williams with captive snakes, 253 



Z. 



Zwart Ringhals, 185 

 slang, 98 



