NOTES ON SNAKES COLLECTED JN FYZABAD. 



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was dislodged from the same heap, and it would appear that these two 

 were cohabiting. 



More interesting still on the 14th August a boy brought me 3 eggs 

 and a snake, and told me he had dug up the eggs, and. that there were 

 two snakes with them. One snake, the same as the one produced 

 which was a male striatus, he said had escaped. Originally there were 

 4 eggs, one of which got broken. I inspected the spot, and found that 

 this happy family party had been disturbed beneath the roots of an 

 ixora bush some twelve inches or so beneath the soil. The story was 

 corroborated by other coolies working at the same spot, and there is 

 little doubt that these two were mates who had not dissolved partner- 

 ship, though the fruits of their union had matured into eggs which had 

 been discharged. This is quite in consonance with other records 

 contained in my note books. 



The eggs struck me as being very remarkably large. A length of 

 one inch for an egg in a mother, herself less than 13 inches in length, 

 which is what I measured the eggs in abdomina in the specimen of the 

 3rd August, is remarkable. The measurements of one of the 3 eggs 

 laid, which were brought me on the 14th August, were 1 ^ X ^V'.- 

 They were all equally large. 



Food. — It will be observed the food as in other Lycodons is mainly 

 lacertine. 



I have arranged the notes on these specimens in tabular form as 

 follows : — 



