DEATH. 
BIRDS OF PREY.—(THE RAPTORES). 
Ir was one of my saddest hours when, seeking in nature 
oar refuge from the thoughts of the age, I for the first time 
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es encountered the head of the viper. This occurred in a 
valuable museum of anatomical imitations. The head, 
marvellously imitated and enormously enlarged, so as to remind one 
of the tiger’s and the jaguar’s, exposed in its horrible form a some- 
thing still more horrible. You seized at once the delicate, infinite, 
fearfully prescient precautions by which the deadly machine is so 
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