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Identifier: reptilebookcompr1915ditm (find matches)
Title: The reptile book; a comprehensive popularised work on the structure and habits of the turtles, tortoises, crocodilians, lizards and snakes which inhabit the United States and northern Mexico
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Ditmars, Raymond Lee, 1876-1942
Subjects: Reptiles -- North America
Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library
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HEADS OF COPPERHEAD SNAKE AND WATER MOCCASIN. From top and side
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\V\TF.R MOCCASIN*; COTTON-MOUTH SNAKE, Ancistrodon piscivorm Abounds in the Southern swrimns and laRoons. Its hostile looks arc in oerfert keepine with a constantly vicious dispositionThe species is very poisonous. It feeds upon birds, small mammals and frogs The Moccasins unlike the innocuous Water Snakes, does not confine its diet tocold-blooded prey, but feeds also upon birds and small mammals. In captivity there are few or no reptiles more hardy than theMoccasin. The writer has specimens which have been captivefor more than eleven years, and promise to flourish for an indefi-nite time. Some of these snakes were captive born and havegrown to great size, owing to a regular supply of food and theabsence of the hibernating period, which tends to limit a reptilesgrowth. These specimens never show the least intimations ofhostility, and in fact the general demeanour of this species ofsnake when removed from a wild state is a lazy indifferenceto everything but food. They live well with no