VI. Some Account of the Large Snake ALEa-azacur, (Boa 
Consrrictor of Lannxvs), found in the Province of 
Tipperah. Communicated by Mz James Russewt. Ex- 
tracted from the Memorandum Book of Joun Coisz 
Scort, spin 
[Read 28th April 1807]. 
wf een 1. 1787. 
Lance, OAS of this fpecies, was: brought to Comillah. 
‘It meafured 15 feet. 3 inches in.length, and 18 inches in 
pea stir about the middle. This: meafurement, however, 
waried confiderably by the, wreathings: and contortions it made, 
in order to free itfelf from confinement. 9 
_ -TueEcefophagus, from. the mouth: to the pylorus, or bottom 
ae the ftomach, meafured altogether 9 feet'3 inches,and was fo 
wide as to take in a man’s. head with ‘eafe: The ftomach was 
eafily, diftinguithed “bythe thicknefs of its coats, or the number 
of rug on its internal forface.;, But-there was»no contraction, 
at the, cardia or, entrance of the fomach.»: The outlet or pylo- 
Tus, however, was fo narrow.as hardly to admit two fingers. 
hBEb head of the fhake was {mall.in proportion to its body.. 
And. -I was. curiops, to obferve. the mechaniifm of the j Jaw, by 
which it; can, {g eafily take into.its mouth ally. pes as oan 
as the thickeft part of its Pedy. poor 
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