CONTENTS 



INTRODUCTION 



CHAPTER I'AGE 



I. Definition and Classification - - i 



II. External Characters — Integument - - 8 



III. Coloration - - - - 29 



IV. Skeleton - - - - - - 40 



V. Dentition - - - - - -53 



VI. Poison Apparatus — Different Kinds of 



Poisons - - - - - 62 



VII. Nervous System — Sense Organs - - 73 



VIII. Viscera - - - - - -77 



IX. Organs of Reproduction ; Pairing; Oviposi- 



tion ; Development - - - 82 



X. Habits - - - - - 91 



XI. Parasites - - - - - - 107 



XII. Distribution - - - - - 118 



XIII. Snakes in Relation to Man - - - 133 



SYSTEMATIC ACCOUNT OF THE SNAKES 



OF EUROPE 



First Family: TYPHLOPIDjE 



Genus TYPHLOPS, Schneider - - - 144 



1. Typhlops vermicularis, Merrem — The Greek 



Blind-Snake - 144 



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