. The museum of natural history, with introductory essay on the natural history of the primeval world : being a popular account of the structure, habits, and classification of the various departments of the animal kingdom, quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, shells, and insects, including the insects destructive to agriculture . e, and a third, broad and club-shaped, is prolongedfrom the eye to the neck. The iris is of agolden yellow colour. The adults are more brilliantlycoloured than the young. The head is distinct fromthe body, is tolerably broad, elongate, depressed on thesummit,
. The museum of natural history, with introductory essay on the natural history of the primeval world : being a popular account of the structure, habits, and classification of the various departments of the animal kingdom, quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, shells, and insects, including the insects destructive to agriculture . e, and a third, broad and club-shaped, is prolongedfrom the eye to the neck. The iris is of agolden yellow colour. The adults are more brilliantlycoloured than the young. The head is distinct fromthe body, is tolerably broad, elongate, depressed on thesummit, and terminates in a narrow rounded nostrils, large and round, are slightly distant fromeach other, and are directed backwards. The eye isnearly lateral, and directed slightly forwards. The tailis much smaller in circumference than the trunk, andis rather short and conical. On the continent of Indiathis serpent is known to the natives by the name ofthe Bora or Pcdda Poda, but by the English is caUodthe Rock Snake. Russell, who describes it, says henever saw one exceeding ten feet in length, and statesthat he has observed them twisting themselves roundtne arms of the snakemen, who merely complained ofthe arm being benumbed by their grasp. In the islandof Java, however, they would appear to grow to a much Fig. Head of the Rock Snake (Python moluinisj. larger size. M. Eeinwardt, as Schlegel informs us,brought from thence to Europe a skeleton of thisspecies which exceeded seventeen feet. The Malaysof Java, he says, call it Oular-Sawa or inhabits low, shady, marshy, or mundated places,and appears to delight m rice-fields. It is said to reachthe length of twenty-five feet, but the largest I haveever seen only measured seventeen. The natives drawa good omen from the neighbourhood of this have sometimes found in its stomach the hoofs ofdeer, and it attacks also pigs. M. Boie, a corre-spondent of Schlegel, and who has been mentionedbefore, thus wri
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