Show hammerhead HAMMER HEAD SNAKE A letter from or dr E E brown jays he and party have made a mot most wonderful discovery in kings river canyons canyon say ayi the SOMA Sel maCaL cai irrigator in im crossing a small mall crook creek they same to a beautiful canyon or basin of about three acres acre of level meadows meadow our eur rounded by perpendicular walls walla some ome WO feet high A floe fine stream ef cold clear water was wai flowing into the little m meadow but there seemed to be no ne outlet there was no way of getting down into the valley but quail and rabbit seemed 0 inhabit tile the little basin A pair of opera glasses brought to light a number of snakes basking in the un sun ou on a flat rock they were one to t three brag feet in length and had bad heads shaped exactly like a blacksmith hammer while the party were examining x with the glance the ms maneuvers nou of a number of of the snakes crawling through the gram a very large one was wae noticed making a sneak neak on a ton tob tall tail rabbit when within about two feet of the rabbit the snake stiffened the front half of its ito body and beat it into a right angle then thea his snake snakeskin skip straightened out suddenly ud denly bringing the rabbit a swinging bow on theale the aide of its ito head which laid aid bunny out corn 0 m plemely ely another snake rake was observed to creep ea an to a quail sitting qu en a scrubby crabby tree this snake make twisted about four inch of its it tall tail along a limb of the tree and used all the rest reit of its it body for a hammer mad handle to whack the quail 9 on the head aoh such ooh a stinging ti agg blow blew that it died without a flutter flatter of its ito wings winge the rake to have the wonderful power of lengthening its ito body out nearly double its ito normal length and as aa small mall as a whalebone whip the heavier part being next to the part wrapped around the tree after killing the quail and rabbit the snake hammered the body into a pulp bones bone and all with its ito hes head d and then wallowed swallowed the whole business bual aeu the swallowing showed that the hammer part of the head could be laid back out of the way while the swallowing was wa done every effort possible with the appliances A they bad with them was wa made to get one of the snakes but the they failed |