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It inhabits the bottoms of marine creeks and the mouths ,,f ri\< r. The Javanese call it Oular 

 Lim|-. Tin- Uxly of this n-ptile is covered with small scales, each boldly keeled in th- 

 air I its color is blurk and white arranged in alternate rings. 



TIM. KUI'KTOX, or HERPETON, as the name is sometimes written, in a truly curious reptile, 

 of no great size, but bearing a pair of appendages on the head that seem to serve no 



NOOgnizt-*) j.uij HVC to l>ewi]dsj Kiolo^i.st.s. Tha MSlBBOl All OBWlnt ! OOVMld i:ti 



s-al.-s, ami mi i-arli -:! ( ir rfm I HalOM tfgmit^, '1'ln- MMdnAll "ik.-:m i> nf|^ 

 I.IK i Dinpletely covered with scales and defended by them. Of the habit* of the Erpeton 

 nothing api>ears to be known, and even ito country is dubious. Ite color is pale brown 

 streaked with white. 





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THE sombre and rather unsightly CERBERUS, better known by its native name of KAROO 

 BOKADAM, is an A-iati. n-jitilf. being found in India, the Philippines, Ceylon, Borneo, and 

 similar countries. It is an ugly looking Serpent, but is not much dnaded, and is thought to 

 be practically non-venomous. It is a stout, thick-bodied Snake, with a very large head in 

 proportion to the size of its neck, though small in comparison with the body. The mouth is 

 not largo, and the teeth are small, regular, and set rather closely together. The nostrils of 

 this Serpent are very small, and placed close to each other almost on the very tip of the muzzle. 

 The eyes are small, round, and projecting as if squeezed out of the head, and are surrounded 

 by a curious circle of nirly triangular scales, much as a circular window in a brick wall is 

 edged with wedge-shaped bricks. 



