The Life- History of British Serpents and Their Local Distribution in the British IslesW. Blackwood and sons, 1901 - 383 páginas |
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... question is situated in a row of eighteen , called Cefncaeau Row , some two miles from Llanelly . The row faces north , the road runs at the front doors , the gardens of the houses being across the road . Beyond the gardens is a field ...
... question is situated in a row of eighteen , called Cefncaeau Row , some two miles from Llanelly . The row faces north , the road runs at the front doors , the gardens of the houses being across the road . Beyond the gardens is a field ...
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... questions Mr Lewis kindly gave me the following additional details concerning the snakes in the immediate neighbourhood . In the next house to the one above referred to , a large specimen , 2 feet 3 inches long , had been killed C a ...
... questions Mr Lewis kindly gave me the following additional details concerning the snakes in the immediate neighbourhood . In the next house to the one above referred to , a large specimen , 2 feet 3 inches long , had been killed C a ...
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... of being guilty of this ophid- ian conundrum . Both views are quite feasible , and one could not decide the question without further evidence . 43 CHAPTER V. CORONELLA AUSTRIACA , OR THE SMOOTH SNAKE 42 BRITISH SERPENTS .
... of being guilty of this ophid- ian conundrum . Both views are quite feasible , and one could not decide the question without further evidence . 43 CHAPTER V. CORONELLA AUSTRIACA , OR THE SMOOTH SNAKE 42 BRITISH SERPENTS .
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... question : - " Most people , I imagine , have been hitherto aware of only one other British serpent besides the adder , and that is the common or ringed snake . A figure and general description , therefore , with a few addi- tional ...
... question : - " Most people , I imagine , have been hitherto aware of only one other British serpent besides the adder , and that is the common or ringed snake . A figure and general description , therefore , with a few addi- tional ...
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... question of their food- supply and its digestion ; and particularly difficult is it to get authority for the statements which are made . There are only two methods of investigation that are of any real value - namely , the actual ...
... question of their food- supply and its digestion ; and particularly difficult is it to get authority for the statements which are made . There are only two methods of investigation that are of any real value - namely , the actual ...
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18 inches 24 inches adder averages adders and ring animals Author average length bite bitten British serpents captured Cefncaeau Cheap Edition common snake Coronella austriaca Crown 8vo Demy 8vo dissection distribution district Edinburgh eggs embryo Fcap feet female adder Forest frequently frog Garway Hill grass snake gullet head heaths Herefordshire hibernation inches in length inches long killed large number largest letter lizard LL.D locality MALE ADDER Maps markings measured Monmouthshire Monnow Valley Museum Natural History naturalist neighbourhood Newcastle Emlyn North number of young numerous Illustrations observed occur OLIPHANT once Ophidia Pontrilas Portraits Post 8vo Professor PROVINCE rare reptile ring snake Scotland Second Edition side slough slow-worm small red viper smooth snake South species specimen spot swallow their young tail taken Third Edition tion Tropidonotus natrix University of Edinburgh venomous Vipera berus vols Wales woods young adders
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