| Show the battles it is an error to suppose that rattles are shed pach each year as are the horns of the deer derror br that a new rattle is added each time the skin is shed A friend of mine owned a over one year and while the was ex foliated the rattles remained intact and without additions dit ions men who owned rattlesnakes of the diamond species in florida informed me that an adult might add one or two rattles that is sections to the rattle in a year or again not any and that the changing of the skin exfoliation had nothing to do with the new formation all agreed that the older rattlers of the gouth were provided as a rule with a longer rattle than the young ones said E one man pointing to six specimens of the diamond rattlesnake ada manteis man teus about sixteen inches long and possessed of a single rattle and button its BS the terminal and gr gro oving ring portion is ia called those little rattlers were bom in this house and when they were a few weeks old I 1 mounted them as you see them dr morris morria gibbs in forest and stream |
