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Very little has been written about the snakes of Ceylon, and that little has been mostly descriptive and very incomplete. By collecting within one cover the scattered written copiousl on the 'Snakes of Ceylon'.
The author has incorporated matters which are purely medical in the hope that the medical practitioner may find within these pages useful information concerning ophitoxaemia and its treatment.
A hilly country like Ceylon is to be regarded from the zoo-geographical point of view as an archipelago. Many snakes inhabiting upland regions have a very restricted habitat, neither ascending nor descending beyond certain limits. Many of the elevated ranges and peaks whose lower slopes merge into the low-country are just as effectually isolated as if they were surrounded by the sea, and thus form zoological islands.
No volume on the snakes of Ceylon can be considered complete without the inclusion of the marine forms. Situated as the Island is at the point of the peninsula of India, it is reasonable to expect that the sea snakes known from the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal would be met with around its shores. Accordingly the author has treated the subject on this supposition and included all the sea snakes known from Indian coasts, from the Persian Gulf to Tenasserim.
The book, it is hoped, will appeal specially to the field naturalist and student, and is written in as light a vein as possible consistent with a scientific work. The remarks on the identification of snakes and the keys and synopses to aid their recognition, he trusts, will be found simple and lucid enough to engage the attention of the naturalist, and enlist more workers in this admittedly difficult field of natural history research.
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Sinhale And The Patriots 1815-1818
Author: P.E.Pieris
Our Price: $89.00
History of Ceylon Book - IV
Author: H. C. Ray,
Our Price: $39.00
Memoirs Of The Archaeological Survey of Ceylon Vol
Author: S. Paranavitana
The Rock And Wall Paintings of Sri Lanka
Author: Senake Bandaran
Our Price: $129.00
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