﻿CONTENTS 



INTRODUCTION 



CHAPTER PAGE 



I. Definition and Classification - - i 



II. External Characters— Integument - - 8 



III. Coloration - - - - - 29 



IV. Skeleton - - - - - - 40 



V. Dentition - - - - - -53 



VI. Poison Apparatus — Different Kinds of 



Poisons - - - - - - 62 



VII. Nervous System— Sense Organs - - Th 

 VIII. Viscera ....-■']'] 



IX. Organs OF Reproduction ; Pairing; Oviposi- 



TiON ; Development - - - - 82 



X. Habits - - - - - - 9* 



XI. Parasites - - - - - - 107 



XII. Distribution - - - - - 118 



XIII. Snakes in Relation to Man - - - i33 



SYSTEMATIC ACCOUNT OF THE SNAKES 

 OF EUROPE 



First Family: TYPHLOPID^ 

 Genus TYPHLOPS, Schneider - - - 144 



I. Typhlops vermicularis, Merrem— The Greek 



Blind-Snake - - - - I44 



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