Uttering a wild screech, he plunged his arm up to the elbow into its wriggling, deadly contents, and drew forth a vicious-looking sidewinder, or desert rattlesnake-a distinct species from the big diamond-back-and even more deadly.
"The Boy Scouts On The Range"
Lieut. Howard Payson
We killed two of them, a large one and a vicious little flat-headed sidewinder.
"Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico"
E. L. Kolb