INDEX. 



597 



199; sound of the rattle, 309; de- 

 velopment of rattle, 312; action of 

 fangs, 362 ; cro. fang, 376, et seq. ; 

 species of cro., 386; virulence of 

 bite, 390 ; pigs not exempt, 394. 



Council of Z. Soc, 78, 322. 



Cows sucked by ss., 84, 478. 



Coy pit, 229. 



Cragin, ]\Ir. F. W., on Ilete^-odon, 



450- 

 Cranberry swamps, the Massasatiga, 



393- 



Crepitaculum cande, the, 294. 



Crispe, Dr. Edwards, F.Z.S., on the 

 oesophagus, 490 ; the maternal re- 

 fuge, ib. 



Crocodilia, the, 5l> 261. 



Crotalina, 292. 



Crotalum, 292. 



Crotchets jjwbiles, 353, 362. 



Cniden, s. poison, 102. 



Cruelty, 17, 169, 206, 321, 469. 



' Curiosities of Natural History ' {ser 

 Buckland). 



Cuvier; his classification, 46; his *boa,' 

 47 ; he distinguished fangs, ib. ; his 

 era, 90, 383 ; quoted by Darwin, 

 176 ; his ' vs.,' 353 ; incubation, 434, 

 456. 



' Cyclopaedia of Anatomy,' 118. 



' Cyclopaedia of India,' 86. 



'Cyclopaedia, the Penny," 113, 120. 



Dahomey ; ser. deities at, 514 ; natives 



fearless of vs., 523. 

 Da! ton, the ' Bushmaster,' 420. 

 Danish vernaculars, 479, 

 Darwin ; complex organisms, 44 ; cro. 



milt us, 176 ; a living fossil, 244 ; the 



Platypus, 263 ; survival of the fittest, 



267; on the rattle, 311; atrophied 



limlis, 326, 452. 

 Daudin, 353, 383, 488. 

 Davidson, Mr. (R. N.), asea-ser., 251. 

 Davis' Lectures at the Z. G., 24, 51, 



214, 413 {see Flower, Huxley, 



Mivart). 

 Dean, Dr., a sea-ser. seen by, 249. 

 'Deccan Days,' 517. {See Frere, Miss). 

 Deer kill rattlesnakes, 394. 



Deglutition ; manner of, 30, in, et 

 seq., 132; facilitated by saliva, 35, 

 109, 113 ; in drinking, 92, et seq. ; 

 Schlegel on, 362 ; watched at the 

 Z. G., 581, et seq. 



De Kay ; ' Zoology of N.Y.,' 85. 



Demerara, ' Bushmaster ' there, 423. 



Dentition, 34; o{ Deirodoii, 67, et seq. ; 

 of sea-ss., 241 ; of sea-ser., 266 ; 

 various forms of, 342, et seq.; dis- 

 tinguishing names in, 347 ; illus. of, 

 349,.355» 356, 360; not_ used in 

 classification, 353 ; Cuvier's distinc- 

 tions, 353 ; GUnther on, 354 ; denti- 

 tion of Zamcnis, 137 ; of Xenodons, 

 400, 404, 408 ; of Liopkis, 408 {see 

 fangs). 



Der Hoeven, on the tongue, 118; on 

 gestation, 435. 



Dermis, see epidermis, sloughing, etc. 



Desquamation, 329 {see sloughing). 



Development ; of poison glands, 535 ; 

 of fangs, 356 {see fangs, etc. ). 



Digestion ; power of, 36, 69, 352 ; 

 assisted by salivary secretions, 352, 



557. 



Dinornts, 43. 



Dinotheriuni, 43. 



' Discourse of Brazil,' 271. 



Disgorging, 38 ; to facilitate escape, 

 36, 39, 61 ; compulsory, 36, 38 ; 

 from terror, 61. 



Dissection ; of a rattlesnake, 275, et 

 seq. ; of Xenodon, 405. 



Dog-teeth, 347, 369, 370 (see fang). 



Doubleday, H., Esq., important evi- 

 dence, 491. 



Di-achen, 48. 



Dracon, ib. 



Dracunculi, 196. 



Dragon, 48, loi. 



Drevar, George, a sea-ser. seen by, 257. 



Drink, Do ss. ? 76, et seq. 



Drinking; 76, et seq., frequently, 79, 

 et seq., 83 ; die without, 89 ; milk, 

 76, 85, 88, et seq.; lured by milk, 76, 

 87 ; two methods of, 80 ; by suction, 

 ib., 92; by lapping, 89, 93 {see 

 milk), 



Drosera, 458. 



Drummond, Lieutenant (R.N.), sea- 

 ser. seen by, 260. 



'Dublin University Magazine,' 21, 312, 



