Venoms; venomous animals and antivenomous serum-therapeutics . ^ yellowish, l)rown, or red above,with a zigzag band as in T. benis. Usually a black U-shapedmark on the hinder part of the head, with a longitudinal blackstreak behind the eyes; upper lip white, or yellowish. Ventralsurface yellow, white, grey, or black, with lighter or darker markings. Total length, 620—675 millimetres ; tail 75—95. Acad, dc niidecine, March 19, 1S89. 28 VENOMS. Habitat: France (especially Vendee, the Forest of Fontaine-bleau, and the South), Pyrenees, Alsace-Lorrame, the Black Forest,Switzerland, Italy and Sicil
Venoms; venomous animals and antivenomous serum-therapeutics . ^ yellowish, l)rown, or red above,with a zigzag band as in T. benis. Usually a black U-shapedmark on the hinder part of the head, with a longitudinal blackstreak behind the eyes; upper lip white, or yellowish. Ventralsurface yellow, white, grey, or black, with lighter or darker markings. Total length, 620—675 millimetres ; tail 75—95. Acad, dc niidecine, March 19, 1S89. 28 VENOMS. 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.) numbers.
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