| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| I. | SEEING A SNAKE FEED, | 27 |
| II. | SNAKES OF FICTION AND OF FACT, | 41 |
| III. | OPHIDIAN TASTE FOR BIRDS’ EGGS, | 59 |
| IV. | DO SNAKES DRINK? | 75 |
| V. | THE TONGUE OF A SNAKE—PART I. WHAT IT IS ‘NOT,’ | 94 |
| VI. | THE TONGUE OF A SNAKE—PART II. WHAT IT ‘IS,’ | 107 |
| VII. | THE TONGUE OF A SNAKE—PART III. ITS USES, | 115 |
| VIII. | THE GLOTTIS, | 129 |
| IX. | BREATHING AND HISSING OF SNAKES, | 142 |
| X. | HIBERNATION, | 159 |
| XI. | THE TAIL OF A SNAKE, | 170 |
| XII. | OPHIDIAN ACROBATS: CONSTRUCTION AND CONSTRICTION, | 192 |
| XIII. | FRESH-WATER SNAKES, | 221 |
| XIV. | THE PELAGIC OR SEA SNAKES, | 233 |
| XV. | ‘THE GREAT SEA SERPENT,’ | 247 |
| XVI. | RATTLESNAKE HISTORY, | 268 |
| XVII. | THE RATTLE, | 294 |
| XVIII. | THE INTEGUMENT—‘HORNS,’ AND OTHER EPIDERMAL APPENDAGES, | 315 |
| XIX. | DENTITION, | 342 |
| XX. | VIPERINE FANGS, | 368 |
| XXI. | THE CROTALIDÆ, | 381 |
| XXII. | THE XENODONS, | 395 |
| XXIII. | OPHIDIAN NOMENCLATURE, AND VERNACULARS, | 413 |
| XXIV. | DO SNAKES INCUBATE THEIR EGGS? | 431 |
| XXV. | ANACONDA AND ANGUIS FRAGILIS, | 452 |
| XXVI. | ‘LIZZIE,’ | 470 |
| XXVII. | DO SNAKES AFFORD A REFUGE TO THEIR YOUNG? | 483 |
| XXVIII. | SERPENT WORSHIP, ‘CHARMING,’ ETC., | 507 |
| XXIX. | THE VENOMS AND THEIR REMEDIES, | 532 |
| XXX. | NOTES FROM THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, | 561 |
| INDEX, | 593 |