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The fnake is oviparous: it lays its eggs in Eggs. 

 dung-hills, and in hot-beds, whofe heat, aided by 

 that of the fun, promotes the exclufion of the 

 young. 



During winter it lies torpid in banks of hedges, 

 and under old trees. 



Anguis Eryx. Lin. fyfi. 392. 14. Aber- 



A new Snake. Tour in Scot/. 1769. App. deen. 



LENGTH fifteen inches. Tongue broad and 

 forked. Noftrils fmall, round, and placed 

 near the tip of the nofe. Eyes lodged in oblong 

 fiflures above the angle of the mouth. Belly of 

 a bluifh lead color, marked with fmall white fpots 

 irregularly difpoled. The reft of the body of a 

 greyifli brown, with three longitudinal dufky lines, 

 one extending from the head along the back to 

 the point of the tail; the others broader, and 

 extending the whole length of the fides. It had 

 no fcuta ; but was entirely covered with fmall 

 fcales ; largeft on the upper part of the head. 



Inhabits Aberdeen/hire. Communicated to me by 

 the late Doctor David Skene. 



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