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17. OxyeGxossus t1mA, Tschudi. 
18, Rana viTTicerA, Wiegm. 
19. Buro MELANOSsTICTUS, Schneid. 
20, PoLyPEDATES MACULATUS, Gray. 
21. HyLaARANA ERYTHR2ZA, Schleg. 
22. KaLouLa PuLcHRA, Gray. 
23. PLETHODON PERSIMILIS, Gray. 
The earliest notice of Siamese Reptiles is found in Tavernier (‘Col- 
lection of Travels through Turkey into Persia and the East Indies,’ 
Lond. 1684, fol.). In Part 2, book iii. chap. xvili., speaking of the 
kingdom of Siam, he says, p. 189, “‘ There are some serpents, two foot 
long, with two heads ; but one of them has no motion. There is also 
another creature, like our Salamander, with a forked tail, and very 
venomous.” 
We learn more from the Jesuit Tachard, who published a ‘ Voyage 
de Siam des péres Jésuites,’ Amsterd. 1689, 8vo. He mentions, 
p- 155, Gecko verus with the name of Toquet, and describes the 
species as “ Lézards fort vénimeux, trouvés dans les maisons de la 
ville de Siam” (Juthia). In his other work, ‘Second voyage du pére 
Tachard et des Jésuites envoyés par le roy au royaume de Siam,’ 
Paris, 1689, 4to, he gives a figure of the same species, and describes 
its anatomy, p. 276. 
P. Goiiye (‘ Observations physiques et mathématiques, envoyées de 
Siam 4 l’Académie royale par les péres Jésuites,’ etc., Paris, 1688, 
8vo.) knows two Siamese reptiles: the one (p. 47, pl. 3) is again 
Gecko verus: ‘Le toc-kaie est deux fois plus gros que les lézards 
verts qu’on voit en France,” etc. ‘ En criant il articule trés distincte- 
ment les deux syllabes toc-kaie.”” The other is a Crocodile (p. 2, 
pl. 1, 2) “‘trouvée dans la fleave Menam, qui baigne le pied des rem- 
parts de Louvo; nom. Ta-kaie.”’ Cuvier (Ann. Mus. x. p. 5). 
pl. 1, f. 9) has established Crocodilus galeatus, from Goiiye’s account, 
and a skull sent by the Jesuits to Paris. Nothing else is known of 
this species. 
Kiimpfer, who had visited Siam in 1690, mentions in his ‘ Ge- 
schichte und Beschreibung von Japan,’ Lemgo, 1777, 4to. p. 24, 
venomous water-snakes in the river of Juthia, making their appear- 
ance every seventh or tenth year, at the end of the month of May. 
Several people, bitten by the snakes, died, and every body was pro- 
hibited, by a royal order, to bathe or to wash in the river. The 
snakes are said to be not longer than a finger, and not bigger than a 
leech, brown- or blue-coloured. This story of small venomous 
freshwater-snakes is not less doubtful than that of the big Sea- 
serpent. 
Crawford (‘Journal of an Embassy to the Courts of Siam and 
