The life- history of British serpents and their local distribution in the British Isles / by Gerald R. Leighton.

Gerald R. Leighton

Date:: 1901

Credit: The life- history of British serpents and their local distribution in the British Isles / by Gerald R. Leighton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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CONTENTS. PART I. CHAP. PAGB I. THE CLASS REPTILIA ..... 3 II. TROPIDONOTUS NATRIX, OR THE RING SNAKE . 11 III. THE RING SNAKE—continued. THE PLAGUE OF SNAKES AT LLANELLY . . . .29 IV. SNAKES IN IRELAND IN 1900 . . .38 V. CORONELLA AUSTRIACA, OR THE SMOOTH SNAKE . 43 VI. HIBERNATION AND SLOUGHING . . .60 VII. VIPERA BERUS, OR ADDER . . . .75 VIII. THE ADDER—continued. ANATOMY . . .96 IX. THE ADDER — Continued, colour variation in BRITISH ADDERS .... 109 X. THE ADDER—Continued, the effect of adder VENOM . . . . . .126 XI. THE ADDER—Continued, the reproduction of THE ADDER ..... 143 XII. THE ADDER.—continued, swallowing the young for protection . . . .164 XIII. THE ADDER—Continued, statements by corre- spondents ON the swallowing of the YOUNG BY THE MOTHER .' . .176

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