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Batagurs (Cachuga, etc.) — Big-Headed Tortoise (Platysternidce) — Mud-Terrapins and 

 their Allies (Cinosternidce and Dermatemydidce) — Maw's Terrapin (Dermatemys) — The • 

 Snappers and Alligator - Terrapins (Chelydridce) ■ — Alligator - Terrapin (Chelydra) — 

 Tcmminck's Snapper (Macroclemmys) — The Turtles (Chelonidce)— Green and Hawks- 

 hill Turtles (Chelone) — Loggerhead Turtle (Thalassochelys) — Hahits of Turtles — Tor- 

 toise-Shell — Extinct Turtles — Leathery Turtles (Dermochelyidce) — The Side-Necked 

 Tortoises (Clielyidce and Pelomedusidce) — Mataniata Tortoise (Chelys) — Snake-Necked 

 Tortoises (Hydromedusa) — Australian Long-Necked Tortoises (Chelodina) — Other 

 Genera — Greaved Tortoises (Podocnemis) — Allied Genera — Fly Biver Turtle (Caretto- 

 chelyidce) — Australian Horned Tortoises (Miolaniidce) — Extinct European Genera — 

 Generalised Chelonians (Pleurosternum, etc.) — The Soft-Tortoises (Trionychidce) — 

 Typical Genus (Trionyx) — Granulated Soft-Tortoises (Emyda, etc.) — Habits of the 

 Group — The Plesiosaurs, or Long-Necked Marine Lizards (Order Sauropterygia), . 42 



CHAPTEB IV. — Scaled Beptiles — Lizards and Chameleons, — Order Squamata ; 

 Suborders, Lacertilia and Rhiptoglossa. 



Characteristics of the Order — Skull — Bibs and Vertebra — Other Characters — Special Charac- 

 ters of Lizards (Suborder Lacertilia) — Numbers and Distribution — Habits — The Geckos 

 (Geckonidoz) — Lobe-Footed Gecko (Ptyodactylus) — Turkish Gecko (Hemidactylus) — 

 Fringed Gecko — Wall-Gecko — Habits of the Group — Eyelid Geckos — The Scale-Footed 

 Lizards (Pygopodida?) — The Agamoid Lizards (Agamidai) — Flying-Lizards (Draco) — 

 Oriental Tree-Lizards (Calotes) — Ceylon Horned Lizards (Ceratophora) — Typical Group 

 (Agama) — Armed Agama — Spinose Agama — Bough-Tailed Agama — Australian Frilled 

 Lizard (Chlamydosaurus) — Sail-Tailed Lizard (Lophurus) — Thorny-Tailed Lizards 

 (Uromastix) — Habits — East African Thorny-Tailed Lizards (Aporoscelis)- -Moloch Lizard 

 (Moloch) — The Iguanoid Lizards (Iguanidai) — Anolis Lizards (Anolis) — Allied Genera — 

 Basilisks (Basiliscus) — Bidge-Headed Lizards (Corythophanes) — Stilted Lizards ( Uranis- 

 codon) — The Sea-Lizard (Amblyrhynchus) — Galapagos Land-Lizard (Conolophus) — True 

 Iguanas (Iguana) — Bing- Tailed Iguana (Cyclura) — Extinct Iguanas — Horned Lizards 

 (Phrynosoma) — The Girdled Lizards (Zonuridas) — Girdle-Tailed Lizard (Zonurus) — The 

 Snake-Like Lizards (Anguidw) — Scheltopusiks (Ophisaurus)— Blind-Worm (Anguis) — 

 The Poisonous Lizards (Helodermatidaz) — The Monitors (Varanida?) — Their Habits — 

 The Greaved Lizards (Teiidce) — The Teju (Tupinambis) — The Ameivas (Ameiva) — The 

 Am])hishiena,8(Amphisbamida?) — Handed Amphisbaena (Chirotes) — Typical Amphisbsenas 

 (Amphisbozna) — The True Lizards (Lacertida?) — Pearly Lizard (Lacerta) — Green Lizard — 

 Sand-Lizard — Viviparous Lizard — Wall- Lizard — Keeled Lizards (Algiroides) — Fringe- 

 Toed Lizards (Acanthodactylus) — The Skink Tribe (Scincidce) — Stump-Tailed Lizard 

 (Trachysaurus) — Snake-Eyed Lizards (Ablepharus) — True Skinks (Scincus)— Bronze 

 Lizards (Chalcides) — Other Families (Anelytropidm and Dibamidoz) — The Chamadeons 

 (Suborder Rhiptoglossa) — Their Habits, ....... 104 



CHAPTEB V. — Scaled Beptiles, — continued. The Snakes — Suborder Ophidia. 



Distinctive Characters and Structure — Teeth — Harmless and Poisonous Snakes — Distribution 

 — Habits — The Blind Snakes (Typhlopodidm and Glauconiidw) — The Pythons and Boas 

 (Boidm) — True Pythons (Python) — Their Distribution and Habits — The Various Species — 

 Allied Genera (Loxocemus, Nardoa, etc.) — Tree-Boas (Epicrates) — Dog-Headed Tree- 

 Boa (Corallus) — Keeled Tree-Boas (Enygrus) — Anaconda (Euneces) — True Boas (Boa) — 

 Keel-Scaled Boa (Gasarea) — Sand-Snakes (Eryx)— Allied Genera (Lichanura, etc.)— 

 Extinct Python-Like Snakes (Palasophis)— The Cylinder-Snakes (Ihjsiidce)— Coral 

 Cylinder-Snake (Ili/sia)— Bed Snake (Cylindrophis)—The Shield-Tails (UropeUidce)— 

 The Colubrine Snakes (Colubridm) — Wart-Snakes (A crochor'dus) — Water - Snakes 

 (Tropidonotus)— Binged Snake— Tesselated and Viperine Snakes— Oblique-Eyed Snakes 

 (Helicops)— Pigmy Snakes (Calamaria) — Sling-Snakes (Coronella) — Fierce Snakes 

 (Zamenis)— Horseshoe Snake— Bat-Snake — Bunning Snakes (Ptyas) — Climbing Snakes 



