This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...to the important points. Accurate description may be given very neatly in Latin; we must try and imitate in English the conciseness of the more classical description. The following scheme will give an idea of the way in which the description should be arranged. Date Place Length;tail. Sex--. Scales rows; smooth, keeled ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...to the important points. Accurate description may be given very neatly in Latin; we must try and imitate in English the conciseness of the more classical description. The following scheme will give an idea of the way in which the description should be arranged. Date Place Length;tail. Sex--. Scales rows; smooth, keeled, or with apical grooves; imbricate? rounded, oval, linear, rhombic or rhomboidal; vertebrals enlarged? at what distance in tenths of length the number diminishes. Ventrals, number; broad or narrow (in proportion to the circumference); keeled? turned up at the sides? Anal single or bifid. Subcaudals, number; single or double. Head, distinct from neck? high, flat, broad, narrow; snout acute, obtuse; eye large, small, moderate; pupil round, erect, horizontal; iris, colour. Head shields, normal? note peculiarities of crown-shields; loreal present, absent, single or multiple; nasal single or multiple, position of nostril. Antoculars, number, does the upper one reach to the crown--to the vertical? (Subocular), Labials, number, how many enter the orbit, peculiarities; temporals, number, arrangement. Lower jaw--labials, number, first pair not contiguous? gular shields, number of pairs; gular scales, number. Ground colour. Longitudinal pattern. Stripes or streaks, number, breadth, position (vertebral, dorsal, lateral). Series of spots, of ringspots, size, margins, disposition. Transverse pattern. Cross-bars or cross-bands, series of rings (number), fasciolation? Interstitial colouring. Belly, throat, subcaudals--ground colour, marbling, stripes, &c. Head, ground colour; stripes, cross-bands, fillets, -or j markings; postocular or subocular streaks. Teeth, number (fixed), equal, increasing, decreasing; any longer teeth before or behind; separated by .
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All Editions of Indian Snakes. an Elementary Treatise on Ophiology with a Descriptive Catalogue of the Snakes Found in India and the Adjoining Countries
