Transcriber's Notes:

This text uses the symbols for male (♂) and female (♀). These symbols may not be correctly displayed by some e-reader devices. An upside-down Y has been represented as [Y].

Some presumed printer's errors have been corrected. In particular, punctuation has been normalized and entries in the Index were altered to match the main text.

THE SNAKES OF EUROPE


UNIFORM WITH THIS VOLUME

THE LIFE OF CRUSTACEA
BRITISH FRESHWATER FISHES
THE OX AND ITS KINDRED
THE LIFE OF THE MOLLUSCA


THE
SNAKES OF EUROPE

BY
G. A. BOULENGER
LL.D., D.Sc., Ph.D., F.R.S., F.Z.S.

WITH FOURTEEN PLATES AND FORTY-TWO FIGURES IN THE TEXT