Our reptiles and batrachians; a plain and easy account of the lizards, snakes, newts, toads, frogs and tortoises indigenous to Great Britain . d to the first edition by the most competentauthorities in this country, encourages me to hopethat the present will share the good fortune of itspredecessor, and maintain its position in PopularNatural History. April, 1893. M. C. Cooke. CONTENTS PAGE Reptiles and Snake-Stones ... ... .... 1 The Common Lizaed ... ... ... ... 23 The Sand Lizaed ... ... ... ... 27 The Geeen Lizaed ... ... ... ... 33 The Blind Woem ... ... ... ... 39 The Common Snake ... ..
Our reptiles and batrachians; a plain and easy account of the lizards, snakes, newts, toads, frogs and tortoises indigenous to Great Britain . d to the first edition by the most competentauthorities in this country, encourages me to hopethat the present will share the good fortune of itspredecessor, and maintain its position in PopularNatural History. April, 1893. M. C. Cooke. CONTENTS PAGE Reptiles and Snake-Stones ... ... .... 1 The Common Lizaed ... ... ... ... 23 The Sand Lizaed ... ... ... ... 27 The Geeen Lizaed ... ... ... ... 33 The Blind Woem ... ... ... ... 39 The Common Snake ... ... ... ... 46 The Smooth Snake ... ... ... ... 54 The Vipee, oe Addee ... ... ... ... 67 Amphibia, oe Batbachians ... ... ... 86 The Common Feog ... ... ... ... 91 The Edible Feog ... ... ... ... 102 The Common Toad ... ... ... ... 113 The Natteejack ... ... ... ... 131 Gee at Wat ee Newt ... ... ... ... 141 Common Smooth Newt oe Eft ... ... ... 151 Palmate Newt ... ... ... ... ... 160 Geays Banded Newt ... ... ... ... 168 The Hawks-Bill Tuetle ... ... ... 173 The Leathery Tuetle ... ... ... ... 183 Appendix ... ... ... ... ••• 189. INDIAN SNAKE-CHARMER.(From a Sketch by a Native Artist.) REPTILES AND SNAKE-STONES. Reptiles, in zoology, as interpreted forty years ago,constituted a Class of vertebrate animals (that isanimals with a backbone) intermediate between birdsand fishes, having a greater affinity with the latterthan the former. They were generally described inscientific works as having cold blood, being thepossessors of a heart with sometimes one and some-times two auricles, but with only one ventricle; so that, at most, there are but three chambers in their B 2 OUR REPTILES. hearts instead of four. They were still furthercharacterised as oviparous, breathing by lungs, orpartly by lungs and partly by means of gills ; thuscombining one of the elements of fish-life with thoseof higher organisms. Finally, their scientific por-trait was completed by the announcement tha
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