Snakes : curiosities and wonders of serpent life / by Catherine C. Hopley.

  • Hopley, Catherine Cooper.
Date:
1882
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    from them, 383; the Crotalidce of modern ophiologists, 385. Pitfield (Captain O. A.) : shoals of ss. seen by, 231. Plate, River, ss. washed down, 232 ; vernaculars of, 423. Platt, Mr., a Florentine enthusiast, 2 73- Platypus, the, 263. Pliny, 84, 96, 168, 189, 196. Poison, renewed, 351; ‘spouted,’ lb. Poisonous ; tongue, 97, at seq.; teeth (see fangs). Pontoppidan : Bishop, sea-ser. history, 247, 251. Poojah, 512, 513. Porcupine; swallowed, 192; H.M.S., 262. Porter, Sir R. Ker, sensationalism, 112; his travels, 113. Portland, U.S., Convention on Snakes, 485, 506. Portuguese : the, as colonists, 4, 354 ; a friar of, on Brazil, 271 ; name for snake, 354. ‘Prairie Farms,’ 227 (see Gilmore). Prehensile tails, 180, 202, 224; of sea- ss., 233 ; of anaconda and anguis fragilis, 472. Prey, how caught, 27, 198, 203 (see Notes from the Z.G.); bulk of, 29, 34, 409, 585 ; shifted in the mouth, 29 ; held by coils, 199, 410. Prince of Wales in India, 87. Pringle, Mr. E. H., sea-ss. on shore, 237 ; a supposed sea-ser., 249. Progression, 54, 213; by the ribs, 208; like swimming, 217, 430 (see movements, acrobats). Psalms, the, 103. Pseudo-fangs, 403, et seq. Pseudoxia, or ‘Vulgar Errours,’ 171, 191. Psylli, the, 522. Pterosauria, 44. Puffing, 148, et seq. Pulmonary bag, the, 142. Purchas, 271, 369, 397, 428. Putnam, F. W., of U.S., editor of the ‘American Naturalist,’485 ; secretary to the Am. Ass., 485 ; on the mater- nal refuge, 486, et seq., 497. 2 Q Q, Queensland, species of ss. in, 540. Questions yet undecided : the use of the rattle, 294; the ‘pit,’ doubles narines, or fosses lacry males, 381 ; ‘sleeping’of ss., 169; origin of the maternal refuge, 505 ; nature of gigantic marine animals, 267. R Raleigh, Sir W., 99. ‘Rambles and Scrambles’ (Sullivan), 419. Rattells, Indian charms, 272. Rattles, their use, 294, 307 ; specula- tions regarding, 308, 311, et seq. ; their age, 296, et seq., 302; form and colour, 296, 299, et seq. ; struc- ture, 303, 305, et seq.; Dumeril’s conclusions, 313. Rattlesnake dens, 289, 301. Redi: Osservazione intorno alle Vipere, 372 ; knew of the mobility of fangs, ib. R6gne animal, Cuvier, 47. ‘Relations of the World,’ by the Pilgrim Purchas, 270, 369. Repose ; after food, 40, 64 ; of sea-ss., 235 ; as quiescence, 421, 587 ; periodical (see hibernation). Reptiles; how divided, 51 ; definition of the name, 206. ‘Reptiles of British India,’ by Dr. A. Gunther, F.R.S., of the Br. M. (see Gunther). ‘Reptiles, Natural History of’ (see Gosse). ‘ Rerum Naturalium Thesauri ’ (Seba), 27S. ‘Rervm Natvralivm Brazilke’ (Marc- gravius), 397. Respiration ; sometimes partial, 144 ; cessation of, 145 ; weak, 146 ; when feeding, 132, 141 ; in sea-ss., 132 (see glottis, hibernation, etc.). Ribbon fish, 249, 250. Ribs ; action of, 207 ; number of, 213 ; expansion of, 36, 39 (see emotions, feeding, etc.); articulation of, 36, 212 ; in progression, 207, 215.