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A P P E N D I Xv 
SERPENTS. 
The rpecies of Serpents are much lefs eafily afcertained 
than thofe of moft other animals; not only on account of 
the great number of fpecies, but from the innumerable vari- 
ations to which many of them are fubjed in point of colour, 
Amongft thofe lately received from New Holland, the fol-- 
lowing are the mofl: remarkable. 
Snake, No. i, about three feet and a half in length, 
of a bluifh afh-colour, coated with fcales rather large 
than fmallj and having nearly the fame general proportion 
with the common Englifh fnake, or Coluber Natrix of 
Linnaeus. 
Snake, No. 2, nearly three feet in length, flender, and 
of a tawny yellowifh colour, with numerous indiilincfl bars 
of dark brown, and fomewhat irregular, or flexuous, in 
their difpolition. 
Snake, 
