Mr. F. X. Botelho writes that while taking a fresh air stroll in the country he fortunate enough to skin of a snake, about 6 ft, long, which is in a perfectly dried and preserved from the head to the tip of its tail, including its eye-skin. Tt was found twisted round the foot of '8 mound and our correspondent is told that this is the skin out of which the snake bad crawled with a new skin. sed in the serpent-kind any other theory to explain how it in could be found intact w The skin is transparent and in cicely marked with spots on the back, the shape of the scales, and n the under side, As be is not a collec-for, anybody who desires to possess this skin trophy can obtain the same lying to Mr. Botelho, clo The China Import & Export Lamber Ca.,
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