Identifier: matabelelandvic00oate (find matches)
Title: Matabele land and the Victoria Falls; a naturalist's wanderings in the interior of South Africa
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Oates, Frank Oates, Charles George
Subjects: Natural history Birds
Publisher: London, Kegan Paul, Trench & Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Institution Libraries

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R 7/fintern lith Mirrterri Bros - imo DRYOPHIS OATESII. HERPETOLOGY. 337 Family DRYOPHID^E. Dryophis Oatesii,1 Giinther in Oatess Matabele Land, ed. i, App.p. 330, pi. D (1881). (Plate IV.) Allied to Dryophis Kirtlandii, but the rostral shield is not revertedto the upper surface of the head; the prae-ocular reaches to the uppersurface only, remaining far distant from the vertical. Two post-oculars ; temporals 1+2 + 2, the anterior being the smallest, and incontact with the upper post-ocular. Head with very peculiar coloration; the upper surface is orna-mented by a pink T-shaped figure, the horizontal bar stretching fromeye to eye, and the vertical part occupying the middle of the occipitalshields. This figure is finely mottled with black. An irregular,oblique, blackish line from the eye to the penultimate upper labial,the pink temporal scales margined with black. Body coloured as inD. Kirtlandii. Total length, 47 inches; the tail measuring 19 inches; length ofthe cleft of the mouth, 1

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