152 TEXAS NATURE OBSERVATIONS AND REMINISCENCES. 



Part, View op Office Where Above Matters Had Been Written. Photo bv the Writer. 



(Most of the Chapters Had Been Published in Colonel O. C. Guessaz's "Texas Field and National 



Guardsman," San Antonio, Texas, 1911.) 



also, that they are viviparous ani- 

 mals.- 



When danger seems imminent, 

 the crotalus at once gives a warn- 

 ing signal with its horny tail rat- 

 tles, when the young, if present, 

 will at once retreat into the 

 opened mouth of the mother snake. 



As to the moccasin. Mr. Ernst A. 

 Raba (one of San Antonio's most 

 accomplished professional artists) 

 some years ago related to nie that 

 iie was eye witness of a large moc- 

 casin swallowing its young rep- 

 tiles. It happened south of SAn 

 Antonio, along the romantic river- 



