. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE CERBERUS. 117 It inhabits tlie bottoms of marine creeks and the mouths of rivers. Tlie Javanese call it Oular Limpe. Tlie body of this reptile is covered with small scales, each boldly keeled in the centre, and its color is black and white arranged in alternate rings. The Ekpetoin', or Herpeton, as the name is sometimes written, is a truly curious reptile, of no great size, but bearing a pair of appendages on the head that seem to serve no recognized puipose save to bewilder zoologis
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. THE CERBERUS. 117 It inhabits tlie bottoms of marine creeks and the mouths of rivers. Tlie Javanese call it Oular Limpe. Tlie body of this reptile is covered with small scales, each boldly keeled in the centre, and its color is black and white arranged in alternate rings. The Ekpetoin', or Herpeton, as the name is sometimes written, is a truly curious reptile, of no great size, but bearing a pair of appendages on the head that seem to serve no recognized puipose save to bewilder zoologists. The muzzle of this creature is covered with scales, and on each side of it rises a curious appendage. This remarkable organ is soft, but completely covered with scales and defended by them. Of the habits of the Erpeton nothing appears to be known, and even its country is dubious. Its color is pale brown streaked with ^OT^TtY,.—Achrochordiisja€atdcu8. The sombre and rather unsightly Cerberus, better known by its native name of Karoo BoKADAM, is an Asiatic reptile, being found in India, the Philippines, Ceylon, Borneo, and similar countries. It is an ugly looking Serpent, but is not much dreaded, and is thought to be practically non-venomous. It is a stout, thick-bodied Snake, with a very large head in proportion to the size of its neck, though small in comparison with the body. The mouth is not large, and the teeth are small, regular, and set rather closely together. The nostrils of this Serpent are very small, and placed close to each other almost on the very tip of the muzzle. The eyes are small, round, and projecting as if squeezed out of the head, and are surrounded by a curious circle of nearly triangular scales, much as a circular window in a brick wall is edged with wedge-shaped Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illus
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