Guide to the galleries of reptiles and fishes in the Department of zoology of the British museum (Natural history) : Illustrated by 101 woodcuts and 1 plan.

British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology.

Date:: 1893

Credit: Guide to the galleries of reptiles and fishes in the Department of zoology of the British museum (Natural history) : Illustrated by 101 woodcuts and 1 plan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$are almost as rapid as they are uncertain and awkward on land. These Snakes are highly poisonous; their dentition resembling that of the preceding family. Their food consists entirely of fish. Sea-Snake {Ilydroijhis), from the Indian Ocean. The greatest size to which some species attain is about 12 feet Pelamys bicolor and Hydrophis are examples of this family. The Vipers (Viperidce) and Rattlesnakes (^Crotalidce) are Snakes [Case27.] with the most perfect poison-apparatus; the latter family being distinguished from the former by the presence of a deep pit on the side of the snout^ between the eye and the nostril. These Snakes have generally a short thick body and a broad head, are$