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The Black and White Indian SNAKE 
is about forty inches long : it is of a dulky- 
vvhite or cream- colour, and hath thirty-fix 
blackifh rings about it, -betides the black 
marks on the head. Its diameter, in the 
tbickeft part, is an inch and half. It is re- 
markably ridged on the back : the tail is 
blunt and roundilh at its tip, which is four 
inches diftant from the vent. It hath fmall 
leaks on the upper fide : thole on the belly 
are half- circles. 
The Vulture was fhewn in London 
(anno 1757) amongft other Birds and 
Bealls of Prey. I could get no account of 
what country it was, except from its keeper, 
who laid it was brought from the Deferts 
of Arabia: but there is no depending on 
their words. It feems to me to be a bird 
undeferibed till now : I think I faw one of 
this fpecies two or three years fince at the 
Duke of Cumberland’s in Wind for- park. 
In Gefner’s Nomenclator, firft Order of 
Birds, p. 4, is figured amongll the Eagles 
a Bird having a tuft on the hinder part of 
its head } though it is in other refpe&s 
different from mine. 
The Snake was brought from the Eafl 
Indies} but from what particular part I 
cannot tell. It is the property of Mr. 
Sclater, Druggifl, in Newgate- flreet, Lon- 
don, who obliged me with the ufe it, and 
other Indian Snakes, preferved in fpirits of 
wine. I find in Seba’s Nat. Hi ft. three 
different figures of Snakes nearly of this 
kind : fee vol. I. tab. LIU. fig. 4. and 
vol, II. tab. IX. fig. 3. tab. LV11I. fig. 1. 
Le SERPENT Indien Noir et Blanc ejl 
d' environ quarante pcuces de long : il ejl d'un 
blanc fale ou couleur de creme, ct il a autour 
dn corps trente fix anneaux noir at res, outre 
les marques noires de defjus la tete. 11 a un 
pouce et demi de diamettre dans Vendroit le 
plus epais du corps. Il ejl con/iderablement 
eleve fur le dos. La queue ejl emouff'e et 
ronde vers le bout , qui ejl a quatre polices loin 
de V anus. I l a de petits ec allies fur le dos : 
cedes du ventre font en demicercle. 
On montroit le V autour a Londres , en 1 757, 
par mi d'autres Oifeaux et Betes de Proye. Je 
ne pus apprendre de quel pays il etoit , except e 
de fin maitre' i qui me dit qu'il venoit des, 
Deferts d' Arable: mais on ne pent guere 
compter fur la parole de cette forte de gens. 
11 me femble que cet oifeau navoit point en- 
core ete decrit jujques a prefent : je crois en 
avoir vu un de cette efpece il y a deux ou troth 
ans cbez Monfeigneur le Due de Cumberland ,' 
dans la Parc de JVindfor. 11 y a dans Gef- 
ner y parmi les Aigles f la figure d'un Oifeau 
qui a une bupe derriere la tete j mais qui d 
d'autres egards ejl different du mien *. 
Le Serpent a ete apporfe des Indes Orien- 
taks } mais je ne fiaurois dire precifement de 
quel en droit. 11 appartient d M. Sclater , 
Droguifie , dans la rue de Newgate, d Londres , 
qui men a obligemment per mis Pipage, aujfi 
bien que d'autres Serpents conferves dans de 
Pefprit de vin -f*. 
* Voi. fon Nomenclator, premiere clafie d’Oiteau^ 
P- 4- 
t Voi. Seba Hill. Nat. ou fe trouvent trois Serpents,, 
qui approchent de celui ci, tom. I p], LIII. fig, . 
tom. 11. pi. IX. fig. y. et pi. LVUI. fig. 2 . 
