200 THE HABITS OF MALAY REPTILES. 
throat. I caught a fine one on Gunong Keledang in Perak, 
among thick fern. The other form is almost black with a few 
yellow marks, about its head. One was brought me by a small 
Malay boy from Tanglin village, where he declared it had been 
killing the fowls. 
Zaocys carinata is a large harmless snake, of which I caught 
a very fine specimen, about eight feet long, after a considerable 
chase. It was almost completely black, but there are also light- 
coloured varieties. It moves very rapidly, and I could hardly 
keep up with it though I was running on the path and it was 
gliding through the scrub. - The Malays called it Ular Tedong, 
but this name is applied apparently to a variety of snakes. 
The green tree-snake, Dryophis prasinus, the Ular Daun 
of the Malays, is another of our very common snakes. Usually 
of a bright apple-green, with its long slender whip, like body 
and its pointed snout, it is easily recognised. It is readily 
here 
are two or three colour varieties, the commonest of which next 
to the green one is light brown, but I have also seen а form 
-banded alternately grey and white. It feeds chiefly I чиа 
on frogs and lizards. I found опе оп an occasion trying {о 
swallow a Calotes in spite of the thorny spikes on its back. The 
Malays say that if you take the fat of this snake and make a 
this diversion is sometimes employed on festal occasions. My 
informant told me that he had seen this done with perfect success. 
o less than thirty-one poisonous snakes are recorded from 
the Peninsula, but nearly half of these are sea snakes, Very 
little is known as to the habits of these latter. They are gener- 
ally taken out of the fishing stakes, where they doubtless go in 
pursuit a the fish, on which they live 
arus fasciatus has already ‘been alluded to. It is 
It is almost always Spee near the sea, in tidal waters. - 
tivity it is vicious and ill-tempered, striking about freely and 
furiously rattling its tail. 
ra is well-known to residents, being quite a common ^ 
garden snake. The specimens met with in the south of the 
