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... rare " smooth snake , " the name Coronella lævis is per- haps most usually adopted . But it is more correct to describe this serpent as Coronella austriaca , and hence this term will be used . To sum up , then , our terminology— Vipera ...
... rare " smooth snake , " the name Coronella lævis is per- haps most usually adopted . But it is more correct to describe this serpent as Coronella austriaca , and hence this term will be used . To sum up , then , our terminology— Vipera ...
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... rare in this country , the smooth snake is common enough on the European Continent , more especially in the central and southern countries . Lord Clermont says that it occurs in Italy , Sicily CORONELLA AUSTRIACA, OR THE SMOOTH SNAKE.
... rare in this country , the smooth snake is common enough on the European Continent , more especially in the central and southern countries . Lord Clermont says that it occurs in Italy , Sicily CORONELLA AUSTRIACA, OR THE SMOOTH SNAKE.
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... rare occurrence . Opel states ( Zool . , ' 9511 ) that its colour after sloughing is a beautiful steel blue for six or seven days . Each of the two we had in confinement changed its skin , but the only differ- ence I noticed was that ...
... rare occurrence . Opel states ( Zool . , ' 9511 ) that its colour after sloughing is a beautiful steel blue for six or seven days . Each of the two we had in confinement changed its skin , but the only differ- ence I noticed was that ...
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... rare species being found in Dorsetshire and Hampshire . In a letter to the Outlook ' ( November 10 , 1900 ) Mr J. Bevir , Wellington College , Berks , whose letter to myself is quoted above , makes a further reference to the habits and ...
... rare species being found in Dorsetshire and Hampshire . In a letter to the Outlook ' ( November 10 , 1900 ) Mr J. Bevir , Wellington College , Berks , whose letter to myself is quoted above , makes a further reference to the habits and ...
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... the open I should perhaps have recognised it , and then I should not have had the mortification of knowing that I had destroyed a rare and harmless reptile . " This occurred in 1891 , and not until 1898 54 BRITISH SERPENTS .
... the open I should perhaps have recognised it , and then I should not have had the mortification of knowing that I had destroyed a rare and harmless reptile . " This occurred in 1891 , and not until 1898 54 BRITISH SERPENTS .
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