Hunting and trapping stories; a book for boys . but the pigs were of thin, wiry kind and the rattlesnakescleared them out in no time. Rattlesnakes are beautifully marked, and are in endless variety of colorand pattern. The Diamond Rattlesnake is especially handsome; the skinof this species however soon loses a great deal of its color. The skin of allrattlesnakes is thickish and tough and it is therefore not hard to handle. Itcan easily be skinned and tanned and made into belts and hat bands. Nearly every Zoo has a good collection of live rattlers, but they seldommove about so as to give one mu
Hunting and trapping stories; a book for boys . but the pigs were of thin, wiry kind and the rattlesnakescleared them out in no time. Rattlesnakes are beautifully marked, and are in endless variety of colorand pattern. The Diamond Rattlesnake is especially handsome; the skinof this species however soon loses a great deal of its color. The skin of allrattlesnakes is thickish and tough and it is therefore not hard to handle. Itcan easily be skinned and tanned and made into belts and hat bands. Nearly every Zoo has a good collection of live rattlers, but they seldommove about so as to give one much of a chance to observe them. The writerone day saw a number of rattlers in the Philadelphia Zoo roused to angerby a dog entering the house, and it was a splendid opportunity to see howthe tail worked. It was possible to get within a foot, or so, of it withoutany danger. Even when w^ld, rattlers do not appear to be very all snakes, they can go for months without food, but whether they liveto any very great age is not so A COBRA CATCHING A GERBOA. CATCHING GERBOAS The Gerboa is an odd looking member of the great rodent family. It isabout the size of a large rat, and has hind legs of enormous length whencompared to the size of its body. These little creatures are not often seen alive in collections because theyare hard to keep. Then again their cages have to be extra large to give themroom to jump and sooner or later they are almost sure to break a leg. The home of the gerboa is on the sandy wastes of Northern Africa. Atraveller who was anxious to get some specimens tried to capture them witha dog. The little creatures live in burrows and come out mostly at there are nearly always some of them about in the daytime. The manwould poke one gerboa out of its hole and then set the dog on it. But unlessthe dog caught it on the first jump the gerboa would always get away. Lateron a greyhound was tried but without any better success. The gerboa is able
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