 | Oliver Perry Hay - Amphibians - 1892 - 218 pages
...that it takes the hook readily when baited with any substance whatever. Yet he had never known them to take food in captivity, even after several months....themselves in the mud, buried two or three inches deep, leaving only a small breathing hole for the long ueek and small head. This it occasionally thrusts... | |
 | Oliver Perry Hay - Amphibians - 1893 - 218 pages
...that it takes the hook readily when baited with any substance whatever. Yet he had never known them to take food in captivity, even after several months....themselves in the mud, buried two or three inches deep, leaving only a small breathing hole for the long neck and small head. This it occasionally thrusts... | |
 | Hans Gadow - Amphibians - 1909 - 696 pages
...water and conceal themselves in the mud: I have frequently seen them thus buried to the depth of 2 or 3 inches, leaving only a small breathing hole for the long neck and narrow head, which is occasionally thrust out, but most commonly it is retracted so that one would... | |
 | Alice Eliza Ball - Birds - 1916 - 542 pages
...that it takes the hook readily when baited with any substance whatever. Yet he had never known them to take food in captivity, even after several months....themselves in the mud, buried two or three inches deep, leaving only a small breathing hole for the long neck and small head. This it occasionally thrusts... | |
 | Indiana. Department of Geology and Natural Resources - Botany - 1892 - 766 pages
...that it takes the hook readily when baited with any substance whatever. Yet he had never known them to take food in captivity, even after several months....themselves in the mud, buried two or three inches deep, leaving only a small brsathing hole for the long neck and small head. This it occasionally thrusts... | |
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... are like scissors. Holbrook says that it will sometimes leap up and give a loud hiss. He further states that it is very voracious, feeding on fish and such reptiles as it can secure, and is so greedy that it takes the hook readily when baited with... 