Venoms; venomous animals and antivenomous serum-therapeutics . Habitat: France (especially Vendee, the Forest of Fontaine-bleau, and the South), Pyrenees, Alsace-Lorrame, the Black Forest,Switzerland, Italy and Sicily, and the Tyrol. This viper especially fre-quents dry, rocky, and aridhillsides, which are exposedto the sun. Like the adder,it hibernates in tree-trunksand old walls. It lays from6 to 15 eggs, from whichthe living young immediatelyissue, provided with feeds upon small rodents,worms, insects, and youngbirds. Raptorial birds, storks, and hedgehogs pursue
Venoms; venomous animals and antivenomous serum-therapeutics . Habitat: France (especially Vendee, the Forest of Fontaine-bleau, and the South), Pyrenees, Alsace-Lorrame, the Black Forest,Switzerland, Italy and Sicily, and the Tyrol. This viper especially fre-quents dry, rocky, and aridhillsides, which are exposedto the sun. Like the adder,it hibernates in tree-trunksand old walls. It lays from6 to 15 eggs, from whichthe living young immediatelyissue, provided with feeds upon small rodents,worms, insects, and youngbirds. Raptorial birds, storks, and hedgehogs pursue (Natural size.) ^^ and deVOUr it in large (Prom the Forest of Fontaineblean.) yipera latastii. Intermediate between T. asj^is and V. aimnodytes. Snout lessturned up into a corneous appendage than in the latter. Headcovered with small, smooth, or feebly keeled, subimbricate scales,among which an enlarged frontal shield may sometimes be dis-tinguished ; 5—7 longitudinal series of scales between the supra-ocular shields ; 9—18 scales round the eyes; 2 or 3 series betweenthe eyes and the labials ; nasal shield entire, separated from therostral by a naso-rostral. Body scales in 21 rows, strongly keeled ;125—147 ventrals ; 32—43 subcaudals. Coloration grey or brown above, with a longitudinal zigzagband, usually spotted with white ; head with or without spots on THE FIUNCIPAL SPECIES OF POISONOUS SNAKES 29 the vertex; black streak behind the eyes ; ventral surface grey,spotted with black and white; tip of the tail usually yellow orwith yellow spots. Total length, 550—610 millimetres ; tail 80—85. Habitat : Spain and Portugal. Yipera ammodytes. (Fig. 21, 3
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