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tail; all elegant ftriped fpecies, tab. 32; and that moft lingular 

 one the broad-tailed, Nat. Mifc. tab. 6-,. in the fame plate, with 

 a fpiny ovated fiat tail and rough body ; the variegated, tab. 38, 

 with a body fifteen inches long, and the tail much longer and 

 angulated. Mr. Phillip has engraven another he calls the laced, 

 tab. 48, forty inches long, tail included, which has its name 

 from the lace-like difpolition of the colors. 



Among the ferpents, Mr. White exhibits, in tab. 31, a fmall Serpents. 

 one, a foot long, white, marked with black equidiftant bands ; 

 another, in tab. 43, of a bluilh color ; a third, in tab. 45, eight feet 

 long, dufky, varied with fpots of yellow ; and in tab. 46, are two 

 fmall fnakes, one dufky with fmall fpots of yellow, the other 

 encircled with black and white. 



Sea ferpents are very frequent in the feas of New Holland, 

 and of various fpecies ; all the fea ferpents are diftinguifhed by 

 their thin fiat tails, and by their having no fcales on their belly. 



At p. 100 1 have mentioned three fpecies obferved by Dajn- 

 pier, iii. co, 93, on the weftern coaft of this country ; to them I 

 can add one wholly black, iii. 130. Authors have defcribed 

 others of this Angular kind ; fuch is the Coluber laticaudatiis of 

 Mus. Ad. Fred. tab. 16. fig. 1. GmeL Lin. 1106 : the belly is dufky, 

 the back and fides fafciated with alli color and brov>'n ; perhaps 

 this is the fpecies faid to be venomous, for in the upper jaw are 

 two fliort moveable fangs. Linnaus marks this fpecies with ( cf ) 

 his fatal fi^n. It is found off the coafts of South America, and 

 the ifle of Tanga-tabii in the fouth feas. All thefe fca fiiakes 

 feem to be confined to the torrid zone of the Afiatic feas, or to 

 the v^ armer parts. They are niore plentiful about Nezv Guinea 

 and New Holland-, their hiftory remains very obfcu^-e. 



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