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 . t GREEN RATTLESNAKE, Crotalus lepidus Only a few specimens of this apparently rare serpent have been captured. All were from the immediate vicinity of the Mexican boundary, on either V PRICES Crotalus pricriAnother rare species. nnH of diminutive proportions. Lives in the mountain ranges near the Mexican boundary. The Rattlesnakes Disiribution.—Desert areas of Arizona, southern Neva
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 . t GREEN RATTLESNAKE, Crotalus lepidus Only a few specimens of this apparently rare serpent have been captured. All were from the immediate vicinity of the Mexican boundary, on either V PRICES Crotalus pricriAnother rare species. nnH of diminutive proportions. Lives in the mountain ranges near the Mexican boundary. The Rattlesnakes Disiribution.—Desert areas of Arizona, southern Nevada,southwestern Utah and eastern California. Habits.—In its methods of progression this very interestingsnake differs from every other North American serpent. Theremarkable fashion in which it loops its way over the desertsands is an exact reproduction of the motions displayed by theseveral species of vipers that inhabit the borders of the Africanand Arabian deserts. When progressing in a very leisurely manner the HornedRattlesnake glides almost in a straight line, as do all Rattle-snakes—very slowly, with head slightly raised and is when the creature quickens its gait that the movementsbecome complicated and altogether unlike those of a progression is by a series of large loops of the body thrownforward; one loop follows another with perfe
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