But some of these remains prove the existence of reptiles of vast size in the chalk sea.

You know, of course, that we have a few reptiles in England.

"The Mandingueiros are famous, among other feats, for handling poisonous snakes, and can, by particular noises or tunes, call those reptiles from their holes, and make them assemble around them.

During the three days spent by the dancers in hunting snakes, it is stated that the secret decoction is freely administered to them, and that in consequence they handle the reptiles with perfect confidence.

I took several pictures of myself at this time with the reptiles at the croc bank to remember my days here and also to record for posterity my new look.

It is a common notion among those who have acquired some smattering of the theory of evolution that fishes developed into reptiles, reptiles into birds, and birds into beasts; but this is as wrong as it could be.

West Pub. Co. (PWH); 3Jul61; R278366. DITMARS, RAYMOND L. Reptiles of the world.

Now Gloria meant to kill the snake outright, not to allow the scotched reptile to writhe free.

" When she again came to the foot of the tower, provided according to her husband's commands, he directed her to touch the head of the insect with a little of the ghee, to tie one end of the silk thread around him, and to place the reptile on the wall of the tower.

"It had broad, alternate rings of red and black," replied Miss Peckham, with the air of one quoting from an authority, "the distinguishing marks of the coral snake, one of the seventeen poisonous reptiles out of the one hundred and eleven species of snakes found in the United States.

Compare, for instance, the Serpents among the Scaly Reptiles with the Caecilians among the Naked Reptiles.

On the opposite side of the building a crocodileor the remains of onehangs from the wall, doubtless brought, as M. Joanne suggests, from some Egyptian crusade; but the "church" puts a very different complexion on the subject, as will be seen from the following, whichwith all its faultswill be, we trust, pardoned, since it issues from the mouth of so badly-treated a reptile as "THE CROCODILE OF ST. BERTRAND.

Nothing could be more inaccurate than to say "every human being passes through the stage of fish and reptile before arriving at that of a mammal and finally of man."

Mr. Emery immediately climbed up, and with a courage which few other men would have exhibited, seized the reptile by the back of the neck and killed it.

But you may not be aware that, as soon as you cross the Channel, you find many more species of reptiles than here, as well as those which you find here.

In this deserted, dead city there were to-day no other sounds than the whirring of insect wings over the plants beginning to clothe themselves with springtime verdure, and the invisible scampering of reptiles under the layers of ivy.

1 pl. (With G. K. Noble:) Amphibians and Reptiles from Southern Peru Collected by Peruvian Expedition of 1914-1915.

I have adopted Mr. Bell's manuscript name for this genus since his paper was read at the Zoological club of the Linnean Society, before the publication of my genera of Reptiles in the Annals of Philosophy, where I erroneously considered it as synonymous with Dr. Leach's genus Macrosoma instead of my Ahaetulla.

If the call were that of businessof any of the great perilous affairs he handled like a snake-charmer spinning the deadly reptiles about his headshe knew she would drop from his life like a loosened leaf.