. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. Malay python {Python reticulatus) nine feet long costs eightymarks—that is, about £4; another, fifteen feet long, is priced at 600 marks; onetwenty feet long costs 1,000 marks, and one a little longer still (twenty-three feet) isvalued at 1,600 marks. These prices are taken from Hagenbecks latest catalogue. Large snakes like these are only for the experienced reptile keeper; and as onemust learn to crawl before beginning to walk, so must an amateur snake-charmerbegin his experience with the smaller species, such as the Four-
. Animal Life and the World of Nature; A magazine of Natural History. Malay python {Python reticulatus) nine feet long costs eightymarks—that is, about £4; another, fifteen feet long, is priced at 600 marks; onetwenty feet long costs 1,000 marks, and one a little longer still (twenty-three feet) isvalued at 1,600 marks. These prices are taken from Hagenbecks latest catalogue. Large snakes like these are only for the experienced reptile keeper; and as onemust learn to crawl before beginning to walk, so must an amateur snake-charmerbegin his experience with the smaller species, such as the Four-rayed snake, the^sculapian snake, or the Chicken snake or others of kinds allied, and thus, fortifiedwith the experience of these, one may extend ambition to the larger kinds like theBoas and their kindred, or even, as the writer, to the keeping of the dangerous sortssuch as Rattlesnakes and Cobras. A case for snakes is usually a very simple affair, and may conveniently be aboutfour feet in length by a couple of feet high and eighteen inches broad. The floor 312. CORN SNAKE. Uncommon Pets 313 and two ends may be of wood, the two sides of glass—preferably plate—and the roofof perforated zinc set in a hinged frame to permit of the interior being cleaned out,food put in, and the inmate attended to generally. Pea-gravel is the most generaUy useful covering for the floor, although fine well-washed sea sand is better for skinks (a kind of lizard) and sand snakes; for certainsnakes a half-and-half mixture of silver (or sea) sand and earth is recommended. Allreptiles drink, and therefore water must be provided in a suitable receptacle; a smallbough of a sapling placed diagonally from a lower corner to an opposite upp<;r oneaffords opportunities for climbing. A bit of virgin cork placed on the floor serves asa hiding place to which the reptile may retire whenever it desires to shun snakes will only be kept to advantage when their cases are artificiallywarmed t
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