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It exhibits twelve annulations or ring-bands, six black and six greyish-white, in regular alternation. The tip is black, and the tail itself is very full or "bushy." When the 'coon-skin is made into a cap which it often is among hunters and frontiers-men the tail is left to hang as a drooping plume; and such a head-dress is far from ungraceful.
He had scarcely got into an erect attitude when his body was embraced by a series of spiral annulations that extended from head to foot huge thick rings, slimy and clammy to the touch, which he knew to be the foldings of the python. Had there been any Lanoons, or Dyak pirates, within a mile's distance, they might have heard the cry that escaped him.
The species figured on the last page is brownish-olive on the upper surface, with numerous greenish-white round spots, darkening towards the edges. The anterior annulations of the tail are black and white, the posterior entirely black. Its mouth is transverse and paved with a band of flattened teeth calculated to crush the hard shells of the animals on which it feeds.
The horns of the female are comparatively small, flat, and have only a small bend backward; they are of a dirty-yellowish white, marked with closely connected annulations to the very tip. The legs are brown, as are also the ends of the hairs about the neck; the hoofs are black. "A ewe will weigh about 100 lb. when in full flesh, with only the entrails taken out.
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