General Zoology V03-1

K N KRAI, GEORGE i \ O'LO G Y , Z () llTTJfAL HlSTOITY S tke first AuthoTities anti most #^ //f/-f//'f f M P select specimens HEATH v -H: l- B y I A London TiJnted for G-XearsleyTleet Street LP, OJ2 GENERAL ZOOLOGY VOLUME III PART I AMPHIBIA LONDON PRINTED BY THOMAS DAVIS ON, WHITE-FRIARS 1802 CONTENTS OF VOL ALLIGATOR III PART I IV Frog, white CONTENTS CONTEXTS Lizard, anguine lumbriciform Newt, common water, great - water, - common water, Leverian water, spotted RANA GEXUS Salamander TESTUDO GENUS Tortoise, common , V VI Toad, granulated CONTENTS Directionsfor placing the Plates in The vol III part L Vignette represents a remarkable species of Lizard (perhaps in its natural size colour dark brown a variety of L Seps) : above, yellowish beneath : feet all tetradactyle, with the two middle toes on each foot long, the others very short, nished with claws Plate to face page Plate 28 20 25 30 28 31 30 32 32 33 36 34 41 35 43 36 10 45 37 11 54 38 56 39 40 ' 59 60 29 41 15 61 42 16 62 43 17 64 44 18 71 45 22 24 72 46 76 47 77 48 80 85 49 50 88 51 88 52 26 89 53 27 9* 54 all fur- Directions for placing the Plata ate 55 eC to face page 184 i e& SPOTTED WATER-NEWT 304 and consequently very remote from each other, and not near so far backward as the corners of the mouth the body is longish, moderately plurnp brown, marked, in a conflupale ent manner, with darker variegations from the fore to the hind legs runs an obscurely-elevated : or thick, and is : lateral line and both : the legs are about an inch in length, and hind legs are furnished along fore the whole length of their back part with a dilated skin or crest, which, just above each foot, is sinuated by two pretty deep scollops or insections the tail resembles that of the common water-newt, : but is neither so long nor so deeply finned or and its termination is rather crested in proportion, obtuse than acute the feet are very small the fore feet furnished with four, and the hind with : : of claws, or at least the apNo pearance of those parts is but very obscure five toes, all destitute annexed native place known is particular history is its to the specimen, nor SPOTTED WATER-NEWT Lacerta Maculata L nigricans, dorso longitudinaliter duplici serie albo maculato Blackish Water-Newt, with a double row of white spots the back Lacerta punctata Spotted Eft THIS Lin Syst Nat Gmel p 1076 Catesb Car Append, species, down t 10 according to Catesby, bitant of ponds, ditches, is an inha- and other stagnant waters 84 CHALCIDES LIZARD in Carolina It about is with a rather large head and the hind five toes ; 305 five inches in length, the fore feet have four its colour is deep brown, with a double row of white spots, from the top of the head to the tail, where it becomes a single row : to the end Catesby adds, that it is equally inofthe common water-newts of Europe with fensive Snake- Lizards, with extremely long bodies^ and short legs CHALCIDES LIZARD Lacerta Chalcides carport longissimo L.ferrvginea, pedibus tridactylis breiiximu, lineis sex dorsalibusfuscis Ferruginous Lizard, with very short trklactyle long body with six brown dorsal lines L cavda Lacerta Chalcides brerissimis and very feet, tereti longa, pedibus pentadadylis Lin Syst Nat p 369 Cecilia major Imperat Nat 97 Lacerta Chalcidica AldroK Quadr 638 THE Chalcides is a native of many of the warmer parts of Europe, as well as of Africa, and found of different sizes, from the length of a few inches to that of a foot, or even more Its is general length, however, seems to be eight or The head is covered in front with nine inches and terminated by a slightly taperthe eyes are small, ing, but not pointed snout: and the openings of the ears very distinct there large scales, is : diameter conproperly speaking, no neck, the to the begintinuing nearly equal from the head is, v in P I 20 306 CHALCIDES LIZARD ning of the tail, which is often longer than the body, and gradually tapers to a small point the : legs are very short, proportion, and the feet still more so in consisting each of three toes, termi- nated hy minute claws: the scales, on every part of the body, legs, and tail, are of a shape nearly resembling those of the Scinks, lying smoothly over each other in the manner of those of a fish : the colour of this animal is pale ferruginous or ches- nut brown, lighter or of a yellow brown beneath: along the back are six deep brown lines or narrow bands, viz two somewhat distant ones down the middle, and two approximated ones down each in the living animal the colour is generally said to have a kind of metallic or brassy cast, which seems to have given rise to the old name side : Chalcides and Chalcidica This singular Lizard is described by Linnaeus as having the feet furnished with five toes, but whatever may have been the case with the individual specimen which he examined, it seems pretty certain that the general number is three In the British Museum is an elegant specimen, from which the annexed The Chalcides is an animal figure is engraved of a harmless nature, frequenting moist shady places, moving rather slowly, and feeding on insects, small and is worms, &c It said to is produce a great a viviparous species, many young The Serpents to which it bears the nearest alliance, in point of form, are those of the genus Anguis and particularly the A Jragilis, or common Slow- Worm 307 ANNULATED CHALCIDES Cepede mip p 443 Chalcide THIS, which is described by the Count de Ceexpede, under the name of Chalcide, appears instead of tremely nearly allied to the former, but having imbricated fish-like scales, as in that ani- into a continued series of annuli whole length, the scales beingthroughout The specimen desquare instead of rounded with a brassy cast scribed was of a dark colour, the body measured two inches six lines in length, the feet being somewhat shorter than the tail mal, it is marked its : : shorter than in the former species, measuring and being all scarcely more than a line in length, still number of annuli on the body was The native country of this kind forty-eight seems unknown tridactyle : the SERPENT LIZARD Lacerta Serpens L capite corpore caudaque continuis cylindricis, Lin pedibus minimis, remutmimis, pentadactylis unguiculatis der Berl Beschr Block Naturf Nat Gmel p 1078 Syst p 28 t Lizard with head, body, and tail of a continued cylindric form, and very small, remote, pentadactyle Anguis quadrupes A pedibus qvatuor feel Lin Syst Nat p 390 measures about THIS, which is a native of Java, and is entirely five inches and a half in length, ANGUINE LIZARD 308 covered with imbricated scales : its colour is either cinereous or pale ferruginous above, marked with from fifteen to twenty dusky lines, and beneath cinereous with a silvery gloss ANGUINE LIZARD Lacerta Anguina L cavda extremo rigidula, carport Lin Syst Nat p 371 rerticillata striato, pedibus adactylts subidatis Lizard with long body, extremely long adactyle tail, and subulated feet Vcrmis serpentiformis ex Africa Scb p 70 t 6&.f 7> DESCRIBED by Linnaeus, apparently from Seba's figure, which is about fifteen inches in length, the body measuring only four The head is rather small, the nose taper, the legs very short, placed very near the head and vent, and apparently terminating in one undivided toe or process the : whole animal appears covered with ovate scales, and is brown above, ash-coloured on the sides, and yellowish beneath ; the upper surface marked whole length by several dark lines throughout or stripes Native, according to Seba, of the Good Hope, where it is found in great Cape of plenty in the water and about the rocks in Table its Bay APODAL LIZARD, Lacerta Apus nullis, L attgvi/bnnis ferruginta, pedibut antcrioribxt postenoribus brcri&siwis monodactylis Ferruginous snake-formed Lizard, without fore very short monodactylous hind feet Lacerta apus L capite & corpore continuis una feet, and with cum cauda ioxgn ten/tints imbrkatis pallidis, pedibus atiterioribus nu/lis, posteri- orum subdidactylorum p 4-35, t p restigio Pall Not) Comm Petrop 1$ Lin Svst Nat Gmel p 1079 A STILL nearer approach is made to the snake tribe by this large and singular Lizard, than even by the Chalcides It is a native of Greece, the Southern parts of Siberia, and doubtless of many other parts of Europe and Asia, though it seems to have been but recently known to Pallas, who discovered it naturalists, Dr in the south of Siberia, It is found of the having been its first describer length of near three feet, and so perfectly resembles the general form of a large snake, that it is not without a near inspection that it is ascertained to belong to the race of Lizards being furnished of and somewhat with a short very merely pair ; acuminated processes by way of feet, situated at a vast distance from the fore parts of the body, nearly on each side the vent the processes have no divisions or toes, but seem to form one simple head projection, with a slight indenture only the : : the is rather large, and covered with large scales snout rather taper the upper jaw somewhat pro~ the mouth moderately jecting over the lower : ; : wide : the ears very conspicuous : there is no ap- APODAL LIZARD 310 pearance of neck the body tapering in the most from manner the head to the end of the gradual tail, which in a point is ; longer than the body, and terminates is covered with lon- The whole animal gitudinal rows of moderately large scales with emarginated tips, and so disposed as to form so or carinated lines along the surconsequence of which a transverse section many prominent face, in of the body, in any part, presents a multangular outline each side of the bodv, from the Alons: ^j head to near half the length of the tail, runs a The colour deep continued furrow or channel / * a pale chesnut or ferruginous It is sinabove, and pale yellow-brown beneath that animal of so a an size should so large gular of this Lizard is long have remained unknown to systematic natuTwo very fine specimens were brought ralists from Greece by the late Dr John Sibthorp, Professor of Botany in the University of Oxford, and from one of these was drawn the accurate figure engraved on the annexed plate The animal frequents moist and shady places, and appears to be of a harmless character 311 BIPED LIZARD L, corpore subaquali Lacerta Bipes tercti imbricato pallido, squamarum singularum punctofwco, ptdibus anterioribus nuttis, Lin Syst Nat Gmel p 1079posteribus didactylis mat ids Long-bodied cylindric pale-yellow Lizard, speckled with brown, without fore-feet, and with very small didactylou* hind-feet Anguis A squamis abdominalibus bipes 100, caudulibus 60 Mus Ad Fid p 21 t 28 / Serpens, &c Seb t 53 f Sr t S6.f Lin A SMALL America and species, said to be found in South in India Length about six inches : diameter scarcely that of a goose quill colour pale head yellou-, minutely speckled with brown : : small; body cylindric, very short and taper but not sharp-pointed: on each side the vent is a small subulated foot, which being closely exatail mined is unequal scribed found to be divided into two small and toes, without claws by Linna?us in the This Lizard is Museum Adolphi deFri- derici as a species of snake, under the title of AnIt is also figured in the same work, guis bipes but more elegantly in that of Seba, LUMBRICIFORM LIZARD Lacerta Lumbricoides L bipes cylindrica, squamis quadratic annulata, sulco lateraH, pedibus posterioribus nullis Two-footed cylindric Lizard, annulated with square with a lateral furrow and no hind feet Cepede ffcip p 13 pi 41 Lumbriciform Lizard Lumbricoides Lacerta scales, Le Cannelle vol ft NATIVE Nat 3/c 212 of Mexico Count de Cepede First described by the in his History of Oviparous LUMBR1CIFORM LIZARD Quadrupeds Length eight inches diameter near half an inch of the length of head three lines tail one inch both head and tail, as in the genus : : ; : Amphisbasna, scarce distinguished by any difference of diameter from the body, which is of uni- form breadth throughout, and by annuli of square is covered entirely scales, as in the Amphisbaena fuliginosa along the whole body, from head to tail, on each side, runs a continued sulcus or : channel, separating the upper or lower surfaces : legs only two; extremely short, placed near the head, and divided into five minute toes with correspondent claws: not the least appearance of hind vent surrounded on its upper part by a row legs of small perforated papillae, as in the thighs of the Colour of the living animal green lizard, &c : suspected to be green, paler beneath preserved in the British Museum about half the size of that described by the The specimen is Count de Cepede, and is of a pale ferruginous colour above, and yellowish white beneath t\D OF PART Leudou: printed by T Davison, White -friars ... GENERAL ZOOLOGY VOLUME III PART I AMPHIBIA LONDON PRINTED BY THOMAS DAVIS ON, WHITE-FRIARS 1802 CONTENTS... several species of Tortoises ; the general similarity being very great, and the individuals occasionally varying much in size, colours, * What are called teeth in the generality of Tortoises are other... according to Mr Schoepf, several different species from all quarters of the globe under one general name * The general colour of this animal is a dark or blackish bay ; the middle or convex part of