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INDEX. 



Tasmania; broad-scaled ss., 423. 



Taste ; dull, 34, 59 ; assisted by the 

 tongue, 72, 86, 528 ; Huxley on, 

 121. 



Taxidermy, formerly bad, 45, 117. 



'Tayle,' the, 271, 280. 



Taylor, Colonel Meadows, Indian 

 castes, 513. 



Teeth ; as holders, 29 ; six rows, 32, 

 343 ; claw-shaped, 34, 344 ; for 

 grasping, 34 ; replacement of, 344 ; 

 gradations in, 342 ; specialties, 347 ; 

 illus., 349, 355 ; exceeding fineness 

 o^ I37j 34^5 360 ; sometimes absent, 

 66, et seq. {see dentition, fangs). 



Telegraph cable, the, sea-s. caught in, 



239- 

 Templer, Mr., catching a ' Larke,' 50. 

 Tennant, Sir Emerson ; sea-ss. near 



Ceylon, 245 ; affection of cobras, 



502. 

 Texas; cannibal ss. observed, 571. 

 ' Thanatophidia, the ' {see Fayrer). 

 Todd, ' Cyclopoedia of Anatomy,' Ii8, 



434- 

 Tombes, Charles, Esq., M.A., 'On 

 the Succession of Poison Fangs,' 363, 



365, VIZ- 

 Tongue ; sensitiveness, 72 ; use in 



drinking, 80 ; a ' sting,' 95, 106, et 



seq.; not a brush, 108; a feeler, 109, 



112, 121 ; position of, 125; activity, 



126 ; colour, 127, ct seq. ; Shak- 



speare on, 97, et seq.; of journalists, 



103; of sea-ss,, 125, 234. 

 Topsell ; his ' Serpentes,' 43, 477 ; his 



'Natural History,' loi. 

 Torpor, period of, 162 ; variable, 163 



{see hibernation, respiration). 

 Torquata, the collar, 52. 

 Tortoise; an 'insect,' 43; vulgarly 



'turtle,' ib. 

 Tortugas, sea-ss. off, 231. 

 Trachea, 133 {see windpipe, glottis), 

 Traill, Dr. Thos. Stewart, translator of 



Schlegel's work, 3. 

 Transactions ; of the Royal Society {see 



Phil. Trans.) ; of the Z. Soc, 82, 235, 



440, 516, 592, 

 'Travels in the Amazon,' 15S, 396, 



421. 



'Travels in Brazil' (Spix and Martin), 



397- 

 'Travels in Peru' (Tschudi),'4i9. 



' Travels Round the World ' (Kingston), 



418, 

 Tree ss., 53, 54, 67, 181, 218, 386, 



430. 

 ' Tropical World ' (Hartwig), 418. 

 Tropidos, the keel, 223. 

 Tschudi, the Flanvjion of Peru, 419. 

 Tyrrell, keeper at the Reptilium, a 



witness, 185 ; an assistant, 402 {see 



Zoo. Gardens). 

 Tyson, Dr. Edward ; dissection of 



Vipera catidisona, 275 ; on the 



larynx, 135; on the 'pit,' 277; 



volitiunary action of fangs, 370 {see 



Phil. Trans. 1683). 



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United States of America ; Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, 

 485 ; Science Convention on Snakes, 

 485, et seq. ; Exploring Expeditions, 

 162, 291, 293, 309, 376; official 

 Reports to Congress, 162, 291 ; Dr. 

 Elliott Coues, 199, 309, 376, 394; 

 herpetologists of, quoted, De Kay, 

 85 ; Emmons, ib. ; Holbrooke, 

 86, et seq. ; Dr. Weir Mitchel, 535, 

 et seq. ; F. W. ' Putnam, and the 

 members of the Con., 485 ; ophiologi- 

 cal experiments {see Coues, Mitchel, 

 Putnam, etc.). 



Valenciennes; on the py., 78, et seq., 



444, et seq. 

 Vallee gave drink to the py., 79, 

 Valley of Wyoming infested with ss., 



289. 

 Veleno, il delta vipera {Yo\\i2iX\di, 1767), 



368. 

 Venner, Elsie, 301, 

 Venom ; varies in ss, , 534 ; intensity of, 



360, 537, 533 ; remedies for, 552, et 



seq.; modes of treatment, 545, et seq. 



{see Fayrer, Mitchell, etc. etc.). 

 Vernaculars, 277, 279, 397, 419, 429 ; 



Stradling on, 423. 

 Vertebrae; oi Dei>'odon, 6'j ', number of 



