NATURAL HISTORY. 
CLASS Ii. REPTILES. 
COLD BLOODED. 
1. Heart with two auricles, 
SAURIA. 
LACERTA. Aciuts. Brit. Zool. 3. p. 2l. 
Scaly Lizard. Lin. Trans. p. 49. In this last 
work three different species are enumerated, the 
characters of which depend chiefly on the color. 
Ray, (Quad. 264.) notes five varieties. It is of 
frequent occurrence in dry sandy situations, and 
on heathy downs, &c. 
OPHIDIA. 
ANGUIS. Fraeruis. The Blind Worm, Brit. 
Zool. 3. p. 36. Ray’s Syn. Quad. p. 289. 
(Czcrxita.) About a foot long,—of frequent 
occurrence, it feeds on worms, frogs, and mice ; 
its bite is not venemous, it becomes torpid in 
winter, 
NATRIX. Torquatsa. Rimged or Common 
Snuke. Ray’s Syn. Quad. p. 334. Lin. Syst. 
Nat, (Cotuser Narrix.) Frequent in marshy 
situations, it is without poison fangs, lays 18 
or 20 eggs, collected in a mucous mass, im 
dung-heaps, or at the roots of old trees. 
VIPERA. Communis. The Viper or Adder, 
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