Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1917 — Land of Many Reptiles. [ARTICLE]

Land of Many Reptiles.

Australia is supplied with 100 species of snakes, throe-fourths of them venomous. The big pythons and-redk—-shakes are harmless, but as one travels from the. tropics southward the. dangerous .varieties increase in number and in Tasmania all are venomous, though only five are really deadly, and fortunately these are rarely s^en. The continent Is also abundantly supplied with lizards. Three hundred and ninety species are recorded, and they may he seen not only in woods and' prairies and deserts in the among rocks and trees, but also in the less frequented city streets.