Upper parts warm brown, like ground cinnamon; brightest on the head, but a little greenish on the tail.

It appeared to be of the genus Hypotrophis, and measured 37 1/2 inches in length; it had a pair of minute poison fangs on each side of the upper jaw; the colour was a dirty greenish with numerous pale narrow bands.

Its color is a disagreeable greenish yellow.

The northern sky was gloriously rosy and reflected in the calm sea between the ice, which varied from burnished copper to salmon pink; bergs and pack to the north had a pale greenish hue with deep purple shadows, the sky shaded to saffron and pale green.

Its color is a disagreeable greenish yellow.