INDEX. 421 
Spreading Adder, 271 
Spur-toed Frog, Smooth, 354. 
Spur-winged Plover and Croco- 
diles, 59 
Square-marked Toad, 330 
Stagyrite, 144 
Starving Reptiles, 100 
Starwort, 37, 369 
with Newts’ eggs, 369 
Stoled Snake, 241 
Stonecrops, 35 
Stratiotes aloides, 37 
Striped Snake, 241 
Stump-tailed Lizard, 119 
Superstitions regarding Reptiles, 
etc., 4, 112, 163, 170, 
172, 174, . 186, 218, 
328, 331, 371 
Surinam Toad, 355 
es. 
Tachymenis vivax, 284 
Tadpoles, 297 
feeding, 319 
Tailed Batrachians, 358. See 
Newts, Salamanders, 
ete. 
Tailless Batrachians, 294. See 
Frogs, Toads, ete. 
Tapayaxin, 144 
Tarentola, 73 
Delalandii, 75 
Taurian Lizard, 104 
Teguexins, 82 
Common, 82 
Red, 83 
vivaria for, 83 
Teiide, 81 
eggs of, 82 
food of, 82 
Terrapins, 43, 49 
Caspian, 54 
edible, 50 
Testudinide, 43 
Testudo greca, 45 
marginata, 48 
mauritanica, 48 
Thorn Devil, 136 
Three-toed Salamander, 394 
Sand-Skink, 128, 131 
Tigrine Snake, 240 
Tiliqua nigrolutea, 120 
scincoides, 120 
TOADS, 325 . 
American, 337 
Bombinator bombinus, 352 
igneus, 351 
Bufo calamita, 325 
lentiginosus, 336 
MAriNUS, B37 
mauritanicus, 330 
regularis, 330 
viridis, 329 
vulgaris, 330 
Californian, 144 
climbing powers of, 336 
colour-changing in, 327 
Common, 330 
croaking of, 327, 333 
Dusky, 336 
eggs of, 296, 328, 336 
embedded in stone, etc., 333 
endurance, power of, 332 
fasting powers of, 335 
Fire-bellied, 351 
‘* fire-eaters,’’ 334 
fluid discharged by, 337 
food of, 328, 334, 338 
Giant, 337 
Green, 329 
Horned, 144 
hot cinders swallowed by, 
339 
largest, 337 
life of, 296 
Lizards misealled, 144 
longevity of, 333 
metamorphosis of, 296 
Moorish, 330 
Natterjack, 325. 
terjack 
Pipa americana, 355 
size of, 337 
skin, change of, 335 
sloughing of, 335 
spawning of, 296, 336 
See Nat- 
