Show SNAKES LIKE parachutes the flying frogs of the malays ap pear to be mythical but three tree snakes of borneo lately described to the london zoological society by mr air R shelford Shel tord are credited with taking flying leaps from the boughs of trees to the ground it Is found that scales on the lomei part ol 01 the body may be drawn inward so that the whole lower surface becomes concave the re si stance to cat jr lr Is thus greatly in creased and experiments indicate that the snakes do not fall in writhing colls coils but are let down gently in a di line by the parachute like action of their peculiar bodies |