Common European adder or viper, Vipera berus 1, and timber rattlesnake, canebrake rattlesnake, or banded rattlesnake, Crotalus horridus 2. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Eugene Giraud after an illustration by Felix-Edouard Guérin-Méneville and Edouard Travies from Guérin-Méneville’s Iconographie du règne animal de George Cuvier, Iconography of the Animal Kingdom by George Cuvier, J. B. Bailliere, Paris, 1829-1844.

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