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Excerpt from Catalogue of the Snakes in the British Museum (Natural History), Vol. 2: Containing the Conclusion of the Colubridae Aglyphae The present volume concludes the account of the Aglyphodont Golubrine Snakes. The collection in the British Museum has received by gifts several important additions since the publication of the first volume. Messrs. Godman and Salvin have deposited a complete series of the species obtained by their collectors and described in their great work on the Fauna of Central America. The contributions to the African Fauna have been scarcely less numerous, the Trustees being indebted to Professor Barboza du Bocage for many specimens of East-African species described by him; to H. H. Johnston, Esq., C.B., F. J. Jackson, Esq., and others for species collected in various parts of British Central Africa; and to Dr. J. Anderson, F.R.S., for a remarkably interesting collection of Egyptian Snakes. The collections made by E. W. Oates, Esq., in Upper Burmah contained also a fair proportion of Snakes which were of value as illustrating the Fauna of this previously little explored region. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."