Reptile Kingdom* 



I^HE reptiles are ovipants, or ovoviviparns verti- 

 braia animals, with red, cold blood, with 

 three cavities of the heart, breathing by lungs 

 either during the whole period or, at least, in the 

 Liter stages of their growth. 



They consist of the Order of Tortoises : Land 

 tortoises, three kinds; freshwater tortoises, thirty 

 kinds ; freshwater turtles, nine kinds ; marine 

 turtles, four kinds. 



The Order of Lizards : Crocodiles, five kinds ; 

 water lizards, four kinds ; land lizards, seven 

 kinds ; cordyles, one kind ; skinks, thirty-one 

 kinds ; acoubiats, three kinds ; sand lizards, one 

 kind; geckoo, thirty-seven kinds; agames, fifty- 

 six kinds; family of chameleons, one kind. 



The Order of Snakes : Out of the twenty-one 

 families into which Indian snakes are at present 

 divided, there are four families of venomous 

 snakes. These twenty-one families include about 

 ninety genera, of which twenty are venomous, but 

 only thirteen of these are land snakes. The 



