. Our reptiles and batrachians; a plain and easy account of the lizards, snakes, newts, toads, frogs and tortoises indigenous to Great Britain. -^ k fc Nf z KJ o N 0 zo _l K <r~ ta- d ina Ci UJ z <3 UJ 0 & « ,\ a UJ £ o z lD <^ 4 * E Ul )- IS Q Z 5. 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 ins
. Our reptiles and batrachians; a plain and easy account of the lizards, snakes, newts, toads, frogs and tortoises indigenous to Great Britain. -^ k fc Nf z KJ o N 0 zo _l K <r~ ta- d ina Ci UJ z <3 UJ 0 & « ,\ a UJ £ o z lD <^ 4 * E Ul )- IS Q Z 5. 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; sothat, at most, there are but three chambers in their 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 that thebody is covered with shelly plates (as in the tortoises,&c), or with scales (as in the snakes), or with asoft naked skin (as in the toads
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