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ON THE INCUBATION OF THE INDIAN PYTHON. 



TABLE II. 

 P. Z. S. 1881, 



QA'Z 



Showing the Averages of the Observations recorded in Table /., and the 

 Differences in Temperature between the two sexes. 



N.B. The figures in black type point out when the difference of temperature is in 

 favour of the male. Such cases, it is to be observed, only occur when the surface- 

 temperature is observed. 



Rep. B. Assoc. 

 1881, p. 723. 



48. OBSERVATIONS ON THE INCUBATION OF THE 

 INDIAN PYTHON (PYTHON MOLURUS)* 



THE only two previously recorded instances of the incubation of their 

 eggs by female Pythons in captivity are those recorded by Valenciennes 

 (' Comptes Rendus/ 1841, xiii. pp. 126-133) and Sclater (P. Z. S. 1862, 

 pp. 365-368), for P. Uvittatus and P. sebce respectively. During the 

 summer of 1881 a female of the Python molurus, about 12 feet long, 

 which was kept in the same cage in the Reptile-house in the Zoological 

 Society's Gardens as two other Pythons of the opposite sex, one being 

 of the same species, the other P. bivittatus, laid about fifteen eggs, on 



Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1881, p. 723. 



