. Fur and feather in North China . A PAIR OF Green Water-snakes {Tropidonotus tigrimis).. The Chinese Mud-Turtle {Trionyx sincn.^ia). THE KEPTILES OF NORTH CHINA, &c. 163 black. Neither of these species reach a great size, usualljr beingabout two feet in length. The Manchurian species is very came across them frequently last summer, when I had a starthngproof of the soundness of my rule in always treating a snake as apoisonous variety until I have examined its fangs and found it harm-less. For the first part of my stay in that country I came acrossonly harmless black and brown snakes,
. Fur and feather in North China . A PAIR OF Green Water-snakes {Tropidonotus tigrimis).. The Chinese Mud-Turtle {Trionyx sincn.^ia). THE KEPTILES OF NORTH CHINA, &c. 163 black. Neither of these species reach a great size, usualljr beingabout two feet in length. The Manchurian species is very came across them frequently last summer, when I had a starthngproof of the soundness of my rule in always treating a snake as apoisonous variety until I have examined its fangs and found it harm-less. For the first part of my stay in that country I came acrossonly harmless black and brown snakes, with the result that I came tothe conclusion that there were no poisonous kinds. Under thisimpression I frequently went about the woods with low shoes and nostockings, and sometimes even bare-footed. One day a snake dartedout of the path ahead of me into the thick brush. Though exactlythe colour of several harmless ones I had caught, it struck me as beingunusually thick in the body, so that when I came across another afew minutes later, I caught it by putting the butt of my gun o
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