Amphibia and ReptilesThis early 20th-century work contains multiple illustrations of amphibians and reptiles. |
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absent adult Africa Amphibia Anura Apoda aquatic arch body bones bony Boulenger branchial arches Bufonidae carapace cartilage cartilaginous clavicles colour costal covered creatures Crocodiles Crocodilia dermal developed dilated Discoglossidae discs dorsal eggs extends eyes feet female fingers and toes fold fore-limbs fossa frogs fused genera genus glands head hind-limbs horny Hylidae inches in length intercentra Islands jugal larvae lateral limbs lizards longitudinal lower jaw Madagascar male marginals maxillary median nasal neck neural newts North America nuchal occipital omosternum ossified osteoderms pair palatines parietal peculiar Pelobatidae phalanges plastron plates posterior postfrontal Precoracoids premaxilla premaxillaries pterygoids quadrate quadrate bones quadrato-jugal Ranidae region Reptiles ribs rows sacral diapophyses scales scutes shell shields side skin skull smooth snakes snout species specimens spots squamosal surface tadpoles tail teeth toads tongue tortoises Total length transverse tympanum upper Urodela ventral vertebrae vocal sacs vomers whole yellow yellowish young
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Page 461 - His scales are his pride, Shut up together as with a close seal. One is so near to another, That no air can come between them. They are joined one to another, They stick together, that they cannot be sundered.
Page 72 - Common salt is poison to the Amphibia ; even a solution of 1 per cent prevents the development of their larvae. Consequently seas, salt lakes, and plains encrusted with saline deposits act as most efficient boundaries to normal
Page 396 - The Indians seemed to think that netting the animals, as Cardozo proposed doing, was not lawful sport, and wished first to have an hour or two's old-fashioned practice with their weapons. The pool covered an area of about four or five acres, and was closely hemmed in by the forest, which in picturesque variety and grouping of trees and foliage exceeded almost everything I had yet witnessed. The margins for some distance were swampy, and covered with large tufts of a fine grass called Matupa.
Page 397 - ... having crawled on the sands to lay eggs the previous year. They had evidently made a mistake in not leaving the pool at the proper time, for they were full of eggs, which, we were told, they would, before the season was over, scatter in despair over the swamp. We also found several male turtles, or Capitaris, as they are called by the natives. These are immensely less numerous than the females...
Page 599 - The crow went to the neighbourhood of a Karen cabin, and found the people, as is their custom at funerals, laughing, singing, dancing, jumping, and beating drums. He therefore returned to the python, and told him, that, so far from his efforts producing death, on the contrary they produced joy.
Page 152 - On the following morning the keepers arrived in time to witness the mode in which the eggs were deposited. The oviduct of the female protruded from her body more than an inch in length, and the bladder-like protrusion, being retroverted, passed under the belly of the male on to her own back. The male appeared to press tightly upon this protruded bag, and to squeeze it from side to side, apparently pressing the eggs forward, one by one, on to the back of the female. By this movement the eggs were...
Page 643 - Viper, is one of the scourges of India, Ceylon, Burma, and Siam. The scales form about thirty rows on the body. The upper surface of the head is covered with small, imbricating, usually keeled scales. The general colour is pale brown above with three longitudinal series of black, light-edged rings, which sometimes encircle reddish spots. The under parts are yellowish white, uniform, or with small crescentic black spots.
Page 632 - He immediately bandaged the leg above the bite, and applied a snake-stone, to the wound to extract the poison. He was in great pain for a few minutes, but after that it gradually went away, the stone falling off just before he was relieved. When he recovered he held a cloth up, which the snake flew at, and caught its fangs in it ; while in that position, the man passed his hand up its back, and having seized it by the throat, he extracted the fangs in my presence and gave them to me. He then squeezed...