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drawing [copied from Seba] of the eared serpent as 
he calls it. He says it is exactly that which he shot ; 
the shape of the head angular in the same way, but 
not apparently so pointed in the beak. It was spotted 
all over, and had the lobes purple-tinted. 
I have just seen Ulick Ramsay, and shown him 
the drawing from Seba’s Thesaurus. The head of 
the snake, which he saw in the hands of the Artillery 
Sergeant from the Arsenal^ not the Barracks, was 
similar. The ears, as he calls the lobe-like organs, 
appeared higher up to the crown ; the head was 
angular in contour, and the body without spots.” 
These comparisons, made merely from memory, and 
without the attention having been particularly directed 
to the points in question at the time of observation, 
are, of course, of little value. The accumulation of 
evidence, however, for the existence of this curious 
form, is, I think, irresistible. 
THE SPOTTED-CHINNED SNAKE. 
A pretty little Snake, hitherto unnoticed by zoo- 
logists, has occurred to my researches in the neigh- 
bourhood of Bluefields. It is much too rare to have 
allowed any opportunity for observation on its man- 
ners, but two specimens having fallen into my hands ; 
and the common people are not acquainted with 
it, or perhaps confound it with the common Grey 
Snake. I describe it below.* 
* Natrix callilcBma, mihi. {KaXhs, pretty, and Xaijjibs, the throat. ) 
Head oval ; snout obtuse, rounded ; neck slightly constricted : body 
and tail slender ; tail two fifths (in the young specimen one third) of 
the whole length : snout projecting ; mouth curved, rising poste- 
riorly : gape reaching as far as the rear of the occipitals. Labial 
