Ceylonese cylinder snake, Cylindrophis maculatus 1, emerald tree boa, Corallus caninus 2, and tail of Ceylon earth snake, Uropeltis ceylanicus 3. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Eugene Giraud after an illustration by Felix-Edouard Guérin-Méneville and Edouard Travies from Guérin-Méneville’s Iconographie du règne animal de George Cuvier, Iconography of the Animal Kingdom by George Cuvier, J. B. Bailliere, Paris, 1829-1844.

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