FOOTNOTES:
[1] By permission of the author.
[2] All ranks count off beginning with right end: 1, 2, 3, 4.
[3] Courtesy of William C. Deming, M.D.
[4] This article is chiefly a condensation of his pamphlet on "Poisonous Snakes of the United States," and is made with his permission and approval.
[5] The passages in this section, from "Camping and Woodcraft," by Horace Kephart, are used by permission of the author and the publisher, the Macmillan Company, and are copyrighted, 1916, by the Macmillan Company.
[6] Muskrat fur is now also sold under its true name.
[7] Unfortunately in the Southern States there is an entirely different animal commonly called a "Salamander" which is in reality a pocket-gopher of the group of mammals.