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3. Copperhead. Agkistrodon contortrix.
Length, forty inches; hazel-brown, top of head copper-color; back, with black spots spreading on the sides; belly, yellowish, with black spots; forehead covered with larger plates or scales than those of neck; poisonous fang-teeth in the upper jaw; tail ending in a horny point with no rattles.
Western and Southern.(18)
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