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1 Allen, E. R., and M. P. Merryday. 1940. A snake in the hand—is worth two in the grass for medical research, and the job of capturing and keeping them sheds interesting sidelights on their habits and peculiarities. Natural History 46:234–239.
2 Allen, E. R. 1952. The gopher tortoise and the value of toads. Reprint from All-Pets Magazine, Chicago, Illinois, USA. 3pp.
3 Allen, E. R., and W. T. Neill. 1952. The indigo snake. Florida Wildlife 6(3):44–47.
4 Allen, E. R., and W. T. Neill. 1954. Bullfrogs of Florida. Florida Wildlife 7(10):20–21, 40.
5 Allen, R. 1961. How to hunt the eastern diamondback rattlesnake. Publication of Ross Allen's Reptile Institute, Silver Springs, Florida, USA. 20pp.
6 Allen, P. E. 1963. Never drop your guard. Outdoor Life 131(2):17–19, 124, 126, 128, 130.
7 Allen, R. 1969. Why save the alligator. Presented to Conservation 70s Inc. Environmental Legislative Workshop, Panel No. 4, Wildlife Resources, Homosassa Springs, Florida, USA. 5pp. [Printed by International Crocodilian Society, Silver Springs, Florida, USA.]
8 Allen, P. E. 1976. I've caught 900 deadly snakes. Outdoor Life 157(5):76–77, 180, 182, 184.
9 Anonymous. 1953. Goodbye, rattlesnake. Florida Wildlife 7(3):31.
10 Anonymous. 1991. Missed meal. Florida Department of Natural Resources, Office of Land Use Planning and Biological Services, Resource Management Notes 3(1):7.
11 Anonymous. 1993. Rattles and research in Florida's Tall Timbers. Reprinted from Southern Living in League of Florida Herpetological Societies Newsletter (June):25.
12 Bartlett, R. D. 1997. Notes from the field. Florida to Florida (with many stops between): part one. Reptiles Magazine 5(3):86–91.
13 Bevan, W. A. 1930. Snake lore. Outdoor Life 65(4):108.
14 Bickel, K. A. 1942. The mangrove coast: the story of the west coast of Florida. Coward-McCann, New York, New York, USA. 312pp.
15 Blatchley, W. S. 1902. A nature wooing at Ormond by the Sea. Nature Publishing Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. 245pp.
16 Brandt, L. A., K. L. Montgomery, A. W. Saunders, and F. J. Mazzotti. 1993. Gopherus polyphemus (gopher tortoise). Burrows. Herpetological Review 24:149.
17 Enge, K. M., and N. J. Douglass. 2000. Easement Documentation Report (Volume II: vertebrate surveys) for Fisheating Creek Ecosystem–Phase I, Glades County, Florida. Prepared for the Conservation and Recreational Lands Program and the Division of State Lands, Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahassee, Florida, USA. 72pp.
18 Forbes, J. G. 1964. Sketches, historical and topographical, of the Floridas; more particularly of East Florida. [A facsimile reproduction of the 1821 edition.] University of Florida Press, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 226pp.
19 Ford, I. B. 1905. On the Homosassa: fishing experiences of a northerner on river and Gulf in Florida. Field and Stream 9:345–349.
20 Fuller, J. [as told to B. East]. 1972. Don't break your tushes on me, snake. Outdoor Life 149(4):88–91, 104, 106, 108.
21 Gentry, J. B., and M. H. Smith. 1968. Food habits and burrow associates of Peromyscus polionotus. Journal of Mammalogy 49:562–565.
22 Graham, F., Jr. 1982. What matters most: the many worlds of Archie and Marjorie Carr. Audubon Magazine 84(2):90–98, 100-105.
23 Hallinan, T. 1923. Observations made in Duval County, northern Florida, on the gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus). Copeia 1923:11–20.
24 Hipes, D. L., and D. R. Jackson. 1996. Rare vertebrate fauna of Camp Blanding Training Site, a potential landscape linkage in northeastern Florida. Florida Scientist 59:96–114.
25 Hoole, W. S., editor. 1974. East Florida in 1834: letters of Dr. John Durkee. Florida Historical Quarterly 52:294–308.
26 Irwin, K. J., T. E. Lewis, J. D. Kirk, S. L. Collins, and J. T. Collins. 2003. Status of the eastern indigo snake (Drymarchon couperi) on St. Vincent National Wildlife Refuge, Franklin County, Florida. Journal of Kansas Herpetology No. 7:13–20.
27 Jones, C. 1962. Listenin' for rattlers. Outdoor Life 129(3):66–68, 103–105.
28 Knight, C. F. 1871. Remarks on the Florida turtles. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 14:16–18.
29 Knizley, E. J. 1997. Gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) relocation project: monitoring the tortoise population and associate species of the tortoise burrow. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 108pp.
30 Layne, J. N., and T. M. Steiner. 1996. Eastern indigo snake (Drymarchon corais couperi): summary of research conducted on Archbold Biological Station. Report to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Jackson, Mississippi, USA. 64pp.
31 Martin, W. H., and D. B. Means. 1999–2000. Distribution and habitat relationships of the eastern diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus). Herpetological Natural History 7:9–34.
32 Means, D. B. 1985. Radio-tracking the eastern diamondback rattlesnake. National Geographic Society Research Report 18:529–536.
33 Means, D. B. 1999. Venomous snakes of Florida. Florida Wildlife 53(5):13–20.
34 Means, D. B. 1999. Snake charmer. National Wildlife 37(2):36–41.
35 Musson, K. 1958. The snake man. Florida Outdoors 9(1):18–19.
36 Neill, W. T. 1961. River frog swallows eastern diamondback rattlesnake. Bulletin of the Philadelphia Herpetological Society 9(1):19.
37 Neill, W. T. 1971. The last of the ruling reptiles: alligators, crocodiles, and their kin. Columbia University Press, New York, New York, USA. 486pp.
38 Neill, W. T. 1974. Reptiles and amphibians in the service of man. Pegasus: Division of The Bobbs-Merrill Company, New York, New York, USA. 248pp.
39 O'Reilly, J. 1964. Rattling for tourists in northern Florida. Sports Illustrated 20(15):95–96, 98, 100.
40 Prytherch, R. 1992. Aggressive interaction between a roseate spoonbill and an eastern diamondback rattlesnake. Bristol Ornithology No. 21:70.
41 Schroder, H. H. 1944. Protect the king snake. Field & Stream 49(2):96–97.
42 Sisson, D. C. 1990. Predators are sometimes prey. Tall Timbers Report 10(1):4, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
43 Smith, M. H. 1966. The evolutionary significance of certain behavioral, physiological, and morphological adaptations of the old-field mouse, Peromyscus polionotus. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 187pp.
44 Speake, D. W., and R. H. Mount. 1973. Some possible ecological effects of "rattlesnake roundups" in the southeastern coastal plain. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of Southeastern Game and Fish Commissioners 27:267–277.
45 Stearns, M. B. 1966. Fisheating Creek Wildlife Refuge...last of Okeechobee lakeside wilderness. Florida Naturalist 39:79–84.
46 Stephenson, F. 1979. Rattlesnake. Florida Wildlife 32(4):10–12.
47 Teale, E. W. 1945. The lost woods: adventures of a naturalist. Dodd, Meade and Company, New York, New York, USA. 326pp.
48 Timmerman, W. W. 1989. Home range, habitat use and behavior of the eastern diamondback rattlesnake. M.S. Thesis, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 80pp.
49 Timmerman, W. W. 1995. Movements, habitat and behavior of the eastern diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus) in Florida sandhills. Page 75 (abstract) in Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles, 8–13 August 1995, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, USA.
50 Timmerman, W. W. 1995. Home range, habitat use, and behavior of the eastern diamondback rattlesnake (Crotalus adamanteus) on the Ordway Preserve. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History 38, Part I(5):127–158.
51 Timmerman, W. W., and W. H. Martin. 2003. Conservation guide to the eastern diamondback rattlesnake, Crotalus adamanteus. Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles Herpetological Circular No. 32. 55pp.
52 Williams, J. L. 1962. The Territory of Florida or sketches of the topography, civil and natural history, of the country, the climate, and the Indian tribes, from the first discovery to the present time. [A facsimile reproduction of the 1837 edition, with an introduction by Herbert J. Doherty, Jr.] University of Florida Press, Gainesville, Florida, USA. 304pp.
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