CONTENTS. 



Page, 

 Introduction. 



Place in the Animal kingdom vii 



Part I.— Physiology. 



Chapter I. — The Skeleton 1 



II. — The Mouth and Teeth of harmless snakes 5 



III. — The Mouth and Teeth of venomous snakes 9 



IV. — Internal organs 19 



v.— The Senses 23 



VI. — The Integuments 24 



Part II. — Classification. 



Chapter I. — Principles 36 



II. — Diagnosis of an unknown snake and method of 



description 44 



III. — Descriptive Catalogue of Indian snakes 46 



Part III.— Natural History. 



Chapter I. — The Snake at liberty 125 



II. — The Serpentarium 131 



III— The Museum 139 



IV. — Snake-poison and antidotes 144 



v.— Schemes of extermination 161 



VI. — Snake mythology 165 



Alphabetical Index TO the Descriptive Catalogue 177 



An Index of Anglo-Indian, Hindustani, Tamil and Burmese 

 names will be found at page , 133 



