. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE PUFF ADDER. 105 Its general color is brown ; there are two dark brown spots on each side of the back of the head, and a yellow streak runs between them. Upon the body are three rows of oblong brown spots, edged with TIOPOLONGA, OK KATUKA—ZioAuJa ekgane. The terrible Ptjff Adder is closely allied to the preceding species. This reptile is a native of Southern Africa, and is one of the commonest, as well as one of the most deadly, of poisonous Snakes. It is slow and apparently t
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE PUFF ADDER. 105 Its general color is brown ; there are two dark brown spots on each side of the back of the head, and a yellow streak runs between them. Upon the body are three rows of oblong brown spots, edged with TIOPOLONGA, OK KATUKA—ZioAuJa ekgane. The terrible Ptjff Adder is closely allied to the preceding species. This reptile is a native of Southern Africa, and is one of the commonest, as well as one of the most deadly, of poisonous Snakes. It is slow and apparently torpid in all its movements, except when it is going to strike, and the colonists say that it is able to leap backwards so as to bite a person who is standing by its taU. Captain Drayson, who has seen much of this reptile and its habits, has kindly forwarded to me the foUovdng short account of this creature:— "This formidable looking reptile is more dreaded than any other of the numerous poison- ous Snakes in Afiica, a fact which mainly results from its indolent nature. Whilst other and more active Snakes will move rapidly away upon the approach of man, the Puff Adder will frequently lie stiU, either too lazy to move, or dozing beneath the wann sun of the south. This reptile attains a length of four feet, or four feet six inches, and, some specimens may be found even longer; its circumference is as much as that of a man's arm. Its whole appear- ance is decidedly indicative of venom. Its broad ace-of-clubs-shaped head, its thick body, and suddenly tapered tail, and its chequered back, are aU evidences of its poisonous nature, it derives its popular name from its practice of puflang out or swelling the body when irritated. VOI,. UL— Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Wood, J. G. (John
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