36 BLIND-WORM, Class III. 



15. Blind- The Blind-worm, or flow- Long Cripple. Borlafe Cornw. 



WORM. worm, Ca •cilia Typhline 284. tat. 28. 



Gratis. Raii fyn. quad. Anguis fragilis. Lin. fyjl. 



289. Grezv's Muf. 48. 392. 



Caecilia anglica cinerea fqua- Ormfla, Koppar-Orm. Faun, 



mis parvis mollibus, com- Suec. 289. 



padtis. Pet. Muf. xvii. No. A. fragilis fquamis abdomi- 



102. nis caudseque, 135. Ibid. 



Descrip. rir^HE ufual length of this fpecies is eleven 



-L inches : the irides are red - 9 the head fmall ♦, 



the neck flill more flender; from that part the 



body grows fuddenly, and continues of an equal 



bulk to the tail, which ends quite blunt. 



The color of the back is cinereous, marked with 

 very fmall lines compofed of minute black fpecks ; 

 the fides are of a reddifh caft ; the belly dufky, 

 both marked like the back. 



The tongue is broad and forky -, the teeth mi- 

 nute, but numerous ; the fcales fmall. 



The motion of this ferpent is flow, from which, 

 and from the fmallnefs of the eyes, are derived its 

 names. Like Others of the genus, they lie torpid 

 during winter, and are fometimes found in vaft 

 numbers twitted together. 



Like the former it is quite innocent. Doctor 

 Borlafe mentions a variety of this ferpent with a 

 pointed tail -, and adds, that he was informed that 

 a man loll his life by the bite of one in Oxford/hire. 



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