Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1895 — A Missouri rattlesnake at the Muse [ARTICLE]

A Missouri rattlesnake at the Muse

um of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge has been observed to lose ills skin twice a year and lo add a rattle for every skin. Instead of losing the rattles as he does his skin, they are retained by tlie closing of the inner end of the old rattle over tlie knob of the new one, and, accidents excepted, the snake bears with him tills record of his age.