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Title: Reptiles and birds : a popular account of their various orders, with a description of the habits and economy of the most interesting
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Figuier, Louis, 1819-1894 Gillmore, Parker
Subjects: Reptiles Birds
Publisher: London : Cassell & Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Fig. li..—Guinea Rock Snake. TemacuilcahuiHa (the words meaning fighting with five men)described by Hernandez, the latter name being derived from its size S8 REPTILES AND BIRDS. and strength. It attacks/ he says, those it meets, and over-powers them with such force, that if it once coils itself round their
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Fig. 15.—Aboma. necks, it strangles and kills them, unless it bursts itself by theviolence of its own efforts/ The same author states that he hasseen serpents as thick as a mans thigh, which had been taken whenyoung by Indians, and tamed. That this Boa attains an immense THE ANACONDA. 59 size is a well-established fact Shaw mentions a skin in the BritishMuseum, in one of his lectures, which measured thirty-five feet inlength. Three other species—the Lamanda i^B. divimloqna), from SantaLucia; the Emperor (B. imperafor), a native of Mexico ; and B.eques, the Chevalier Boa of Peru—are all to be occasionally seenin the Zoological Gardens. The Boa anaconda, more properly Euncdes viuriiius (Fig. i6), isalso a native of tropical America. The name of Anaconda has be-come well known through Mr. Lewiss celebrated tale so called, inwhich its predatory habits are displayed in such a manner as toenthral and fascinate the reader, as the author makes the reptilefascinate its victim. The name,

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