6‘jS 
JLutrix. 
Cc’amd~ 
rius. 
Simus. 
AMPHIBIA. SERPENTS. 8 . Coluber. 
.Vlth bl«^‘ 
Plates of the belly 134 ; fcalcs of the tail 27 
Inhabits South Avicrica and India. Yellow w 
fides. 
Plates of the belly 140; fcales of the tail 22. 1 jot' 
Inhabits America. Livid with linear brown ftreaks ana 
beneath tcirellate with brown. 
Duiiuf. Piates of the belly 141 : fcalcs of the tail 24, 
Plates of the belly 124; fcgles of the tail 46. , .[jck) 
Inhabits CuTohna,, Above variegaetd with white 
and appearing as if banded with white, beneath black* ^ 
Hea(l. roundifh, gibbous ; between the eyes a black 
let ; nofe blunt ; crozen with a 
black dot in the middle. 
'hitifli crofs, marke 
:d 
Sinatulu-S. Plates of the belly 126 ; Rales of the tail 45, 
Inhabits Carolina. Small; brown, llreaked above» P 
neath ; head Jmooth. 
AmnodytesVlztcs of the belly 142; fcales of the tail 32. 
C? Inhabits the Ecifi, and mountainous parts of Illyria 1 
brown, lometimes pale blueifh, with a black dork*l ^ . jP 
toothed, the teeth flandipjg backv.'ards ; nofc terminates 
ereft wart. 
Ccrajles, 
3 
Plates of the belly 150; fcalcs of the tail 25. 
Inhabits the £a/?, t2 — 15 inches long. Rully broi'^a 
darker fpots ; belly blueilh ; Iprings fuddenly to a con^ 
able diftance, and bites without provocation thofe " (fj' 
proach it. AccordingUo the tcllimony of 
vellers, the natives of the countries infelled by thefe aO’ 
js> 
d 
have a method of charming or ftupifying thele arc* 
noxious ferpents, by means of ceitain preparations, 
cure the peribn ib prepared from being bitten, hoWC*'^*^ 
tated the animal may be. of 
Scales of the head fmall, rounded ; above the eyes a P^‘ ' 
horns or curved proceifes pointing forwards. 
ferjmlor. Plates of the belly 136 ; fcales of the tail 39. 
Variegated with lerruginous, blue and white. 
Plates of the belly 148 ; fcales of the tail 27. 
Inks' 
,bit* 
Melanis, 
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