List of a collection of snakes, crocodiles, and chelonians from the Malay peninsula, made by members of the 'Skeat expedition', 1899-1900 / by F.F. Laidlaw ; with an appendix containing a list of the names of the places visited by the 'Skeat expedition', by W.W. Skeat.

  • Laidlaw, Frank Fortescue, 1876-1963.
Date:
1901
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Credit: List of a collection of snakes, crocodiles, and chelonians from the Malay peninsula, made by members of the 'Skeat expedition', 1899-1900 / by F.F. Laidlaw ; with an appendix containing a list of the names of the places visited by the 'Skeat expedition', by W.W. Skeat. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    that the female buries her eggs uuder a mound of dead leaves and soil. Mr. Annandale obtained a very fine specimen at Biserat. Its carapace was 500 mm. loug, following the curve ; he was told that still larger specimens are to be met with. 8. Testudo elongata Blyth. Pam. Chblonida:. 9. Chelone mydas (L.). Pam. Teionychid^. 10. Trionyx subplantis Geoffr. Trionyx subplanus, Boulenger, Cat. Chel. &c. p. 246 (skull fig. p. 247) : S. S. Plower, P. Z. S. 1899, p. 619, pi. xxxvi. Pairly common in the Krian Eiver of Upper Perak. The speci- mens obtained were caught in fish-traps in a place where the river was practically a cataract. Malay name “ Labi-labi ” (applied also to the next species). 11. Trionyx cartilagineus (Boddaert). Kelantan and Patani Eivers. EXPLANATION OF PLATE XXXV. Fig. 1 a. Distira annandalei, p. 579. 1 b. Head of do. from above. 2 a. Side view of bead of Tropidonotus inae, p. 576. 2 b. View of do. from above. APPENDIX. List of Place-names in the Siamese Malay States visited by Members of the “ Skeat Expedition ” h The following List, comprising the names of places at which collecting w^as done in the course of the recent Malay-States Expedition, has been compiled by request, in the hope that it may afford some sort of a guide to the localities in which the collecting was carried out and at the same time make it easier to arrive at uniformity in the matter of spelling. The accented, or “ stressed,” syllable is, as a rule, the penultimate (in the case of words of more than one syllable). The vowels and diphthongs are pronounced much as in Italian, the diphthongs being, if anything, a trifle shorter. The chief ex- ception to this rule (in standard Malay) is the sound written “ e,” which represents what is called the “ indeterminate ” vowel. The ^ Drawn up by Mr. W. W, Skeat (June, 1901). [»]