vi NATURAL HISTORY. 



PA an 



Account of this Sea Lizard The Terrestrial Species of this Genus FLYING LIZARDS Characters Their 

 Apparatus for Locomotion Habits Beauty of their Colouring THE FRILLED LIZARD Description The Frill 

 THE TERRESTRIAL AGAMID.E OF THE OLD WORLD AND AUSTRALIA The Genus Uromastix The Dabb, or Dhobb 

 The Thorn-devil, or Horrible Moloch The Genus Stellio The Toad Lizards THE GECKO FAMILY Appearance- 

 Habits Their Toes and Fingers Characters Colouring Eyes Tongue Origin of their Name Pleurodont 

 Teeth The Various Species The Flying Gecko RHYNCHOCEPHALA, THE BEAKED LIZARDS THE 

 TUATERA, OR HATTERIA, OR THE SPHENODON LIZARD Gunther's Description of its Anatomy THE VER- 

 MILINGUES, THE CHAMELEONS Appearance Curious Tongue Remarkable Lungs Distribution- 

 Colouring The Genus Rhampholeon The South African Kind Changing of the Colour of the Chamaeleon's 

 Skin- THE AMPHISB^ENOIDA The White Amphisbaena THE BREVILINGUES Characters SCINCOID^E 

 THE COMMON SKINK Habits The Stump-tailed Lizard THE BLIND-WORM, OR SLOW- WORM Description 

 THE JAVELIN SNAKE THE ZONURID^E Character The Gigantic Cordylus The European Pseudopus American 

 Glass Snake Classification of the Order Sauria , 272 



CHAPTER IV. 



ORDER OPHIDIA THE SNAKES. 



THE SNAKES The Poisonous and the Non-PoisonousCharacteristics of a Snake Serpent Worship and Superstition 

 About Fascination Skeleton of a Snake Scales and Plates on Head and Body Moulting THE POISONOUS 

 COLUBRINE SNAKES THE POISONOUS TERRESTRIAL COLUBRINE SNAKES THE COBRAS The Cobra-di-Capello 

 The Egyptian Cobra, or Naja- THE KING HALS SLANG THE HAMADRYAD SNAKE THE BUNGARUMS AND 

 KRAITS The Poisonous Elapidse of Australia and the New World THE POISONOUS SEA SNAKES THE VIPERINE 

 SNAKES Characters THE ADDER, OR COMMON VIPER The only Poisonous Reptile in Britain Habits Its 

 usual Prey Its Young The Horned and other Kinds of African Vipers The Daboia The Echis THE 

 RATTLESNAKES, OR PIT VIPERS The Common Rattlesnake Its Habits The "Rattle" The Water-rattle 

 Various Kinds of Rattlesnake Coues on the Use of the Rattle The Bushmaster Darwin on the Genus Tri- 

 gouocephalus The AVater Viper The Copper-head Snake The Yellow Viper, or Fer-de-Lance The East Indian 

 Genera of Pit Vipers How Venomous Snakes Dispose of their Victims Peculiar Construction of their Skull 

 for Swallowing purposes The Fangs and Poison-glands of the Rattlesnake Symptoms of Poisoning How does 

 the Poison Kill ? Treatment of Bites Snake Charmers THE INNOCUOUS COLUBRIFORM SNAKES 

 Characters THE WART SNAKES THE WHIP SNAKES Why so Called The Langaha The Blunt-Headed Snakes 

 THE TREE SNAKES THE DESERT SNAKES THE RACHIODONT FAMILY An Egg-Swallowing Snake Fresh- Water 

 Snakes THE COLUBRIDES NATRICIN.E The Common Snake Found in England Habits How it disposes of its 

 Food COLUBRINE CORONELLIN.E CALAMARID* THR ROCK SNAKES Distribution Huge Proportions How 

 they Tackle their Prey The Indian Species The West African Forms Pythons Hatching their Eggs The 

 Diamond and Carpet Snakes The Boas The Boa Constrictor Construction of a Python's Skull The Anaconda 

 THE SAND SNAKES THE SHORT-TAILED SNAKES THE BLIND SNAKES Characters Peculiarities of Structure in 

 Serpents The Remarkable Eyelid Fossil Snakes Classification of the Ophidia THE EXTINCT REPTILES 

 THE DINOSAURIA THE ORNITHOSAURIA THE ICHTHYOPTERYGTA THE PLESIOSAURIA THE EXTINCT SAURIA, 

 OR LACERTILIA 300 



CLASS AMPHIBIA. 

 CHAPTER I. 



FROGS AND TOADS. 



Characteristics of Amphibians Remarkable Skin The Skeleton Heart of Frog Circulation of the Blood Method of 

 Respiration Gills, or Branchiae The Nervous System Brain of Frog The Eyes and Ears Alimentary Canal 

 THE ANOURA, OR THE FROGS AND TOADS Distinctive Features Hibernation Lungs Throat sacs- 

 Teeth Food Skeleton Muscles of Thigh and Leg Batrachian Locomotion Their Swimming Powers The 

 Tongue The Croakings Metamorphosis of the Frog Structure of the Tadpole Circulation of Blood in the Gills 

 Last Stages of the Tadpole Condition THE BATRACHIANS WITHOUT TONGUES The Surinam Toad Birth of 

 the Young Pipas THE BATRACHIANS WITH TONGUES THE OXYDACTYLA THE RANID.E, TRUE FROGS The 

 Common Frog Habits Its Relations with Humanity Development of the Embryo The Frog's Skull The 

 Edible Frog The American Bull Frog -African and other Frogs The Horned Ceratophrys THE PELOBATID^E 

 The Obstetric Frog The Bombinator Igneus The Brown Mud Frog The Globose Cacopus Frog THE BUFONID^E 

 The Common Toad- Habits The Metamorphosis The Toad has not Escaped Calumny The so-called Venom 

 The Natter-Jack, or Rush Toad The Variable, or Green Toad The Indian and African Toads Mr. Darwin on a 

 South American Toad The North American Toads The Breviceps THE DISCODACTYLES THE TREE FROGS 

 The Hyloranae The Hylidse Their Digits The Common Hyla The Goose-footed Hyla The Elegant Hyla 

 The Common Golden Tree Frog The Pouched Frog The Common Indian Tree Frog The Spurred Tree Frog 

 Tree Frogs of Ceylon The Acris gryllus The Genus Rhacophorus The Hylodes ocularis The Martinique 

 Frog The Phyllomedusidse The Great Green Tree Frog The Dendrobatidae The Genus Plectropus . . . 342 



CHAPTER II. 



TAILED AND VERMIFORM AMPHIBIANS. 



THE TAILED AMPHIBIA Characteristics of those with Persistent Branchise and of those that Lose the Branchiae 

 Karly in Life Skeletal Peculiarities THE SALAMANDERS Distinctive Features The Spotted Ellipsoglossa Why 

 so Called The Tritons The Great Water Newt Its Ferocity Habits Appearance Rusconi's Observation 

 of the Egg -laying Process of the Triton Growth of the Embryo The Mature Tadpole The Power of Repair 

 The Straight-lipped Water Newt The Common Smooth Newt, or Eft The Palmated Smooth Newt Dis- 

 tribution THE SALAMANDERS The Spotted Salamander Description Where Found Hibernation The Black 

 Salamander Mdlle. Marie de Chauvin's Observations of the Changes of the Tadpole Salamander The 

 Genus Pleurodeles The Genus Pseudotriton Is the Bite of the Salamander Poisonous ? The Absurd Notion of 

 their being Incombustible The Genus Salamandiina THE PLETHODONTIIX-E The Genus Desmognathus THE 

 AMBLYSTOMID.S: The Axolotl Their Life History The Amblystoma, or Adult Form THE ICHTHYOIDEA 

 Characters THE PERENNIBRANCHIATA The Sirens Appearance Habits THE PROTEID.E The Proteus The 

 Genus Menobranchus THE DEROTREMATA The Amphiuma Means The Amphiuma Tridactyla The Hellbender 

 The Sieboldia Japonica THE APODA Characters Classification of the Amphibia THE EXTINCT AMPHIBIA . 369 



