Descriptive catalogue of the reptiles of British India / by William Theobald.
- William Theobald
- Date:
- 1876
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Descriptive catalogue of the reptiles of British India / by William Theobald. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![dhongoka of Gray and myself, but trlvlUaia, D. et B., a])ud me, jMssiin, and the linecUct (^ — hlliyiGitjtih <xx\d Pegiiensis) of Dr. Gra}'. No specimens of dhongoka from Moulmein or anywhere east ot the Bay of Bengal existed in the Museum of the Asiatic Society at the date of my Catalogue 1868, and no specimen whatever of trivittata, D. et B. for comparison, so that it seems probable that Mr. Blyth identified from memory only, the S-stonj^ed Burmese form ‘ trivittata' with the ^-striped Bengal representative species ^dhongoka' no specimens of which to my knowledge have to this time been received from Burmah. Dr. Gray adds it is an ‘ estuarine ’ species, which is also, I believe an error, as its habi- tat is away from the sea, as Dr. Gray might have inferred from the Habitat ‘ Nijxd.’ In his monograph the usually accurate Gunther, cites only the Ganges, Nipal, and Assam, though from the fatality which seems to attach to Indian geography when touched on by English naturalists at home, he places ‘ Sooltan- pore (Lahore)’ on the Ganges (instead of on the Ravi, a tributary of the Indus), unless Lahore is a misprint for Lahool, only in that case the ‘ Sooltanpore' in cpiestion happens to be on the Bias in Kulu, of which (and not of Lahool), it is the capital! Dr. Gray also quotes a large specimen in the British Museum as coming from ‘ Moulmein ’ without specifying particulars, but very slight weight can attach to such an authority, when opposed to all that is positively known as regards the distribution of the species. B, Thurgi, Gray. Hardella Thurgi, Gray. Sup., Cat. S. R., p. 58. Cachuga Oldhami, Gray. P. Z. S., 1869, p. 200. II. Indi, Gray. Sup., Cat. S. R., p. 58. Nuchal plate triangular. Shell depressed with an interrupted median ridge. Crown of head lead colored, mottled with yellow, lower jaw primrose. A bright yellow patch from nostrils to below eye, and a yellow line from nostrils to tympanum. Colour of shell uniform, deep brown, almost black, plates below, edged with yellow. Grows to 22 inches.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28058215_0039.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
