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The teeth are: fmall and ferrated, ie each fide 
the jaw in two rows. 
. This fpecies is perfectly inoffenfive ; it frequents 
and lodges itfelf among bufhes in moift places, and 
will readily take the water, {wimming very well. 
- It preys on frogs, infects, worms, and mice, and, 
confidering the {mallnefs of the neck, it is amazing 
how large an animal it will fwallow. 
The fpake is oviparous: it lays its eggs in dung- Eges, 
hills, and in hot-beds, whofe heat, aided by that of 
the fun, promotes the exclufion of the young. 
During winter it lies torpid i in banks of eee: 
and under old trees, 
Mere BLIND WORM | 
The blind-worm or flow-worm, Long cripple. Phe Cornw. 
Cecilia Typhline Grecis. Raz 284. tab. 
Syn. quad. 289. Grew’s Muf. Anguis Hae Nice Lyfte 392+ 
48. Ormila, Koppar-Orm. Fauz. 
Cecilia anglica cinerea {qua-  fuec, 289. 
mis parvis mollibus, com- A. fragilis {quamis abdominis 
pactis. Pet.Mu/. xvii. No.102. caudeque, 135. Ibid, 
HE ufual length of this fpecies is eleven inches: Deferi 
the irides are red; the head {mall; the neck 
{till more flender; from that part the body grows 
fuddenly, and continues of an equal bulk to the 
tail, which ends quite blunt, 
The color of the back is cinereous, marked with 
very fmall lines compofed of minute black fpecks ; _ 
the fides are of a reddith caft; the belly dufky, both 
marked like the back. 
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