: The History of Java v. 1-2 by Raffles Thomas Stamford Sir - Java (Indonesia) History

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INTRODUCTION 253

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 254

MATERIALS AND METHODS 254

TAXONOMIC RELATIONSHIPS AND EVOLUTION 291

SUMMARY 292

LITERATURE CITED 293

INTRODUCTION

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Prof. William E. Duellman supplied invaluable information and guidance in my study. I am grateful to Prof. E. Raymond Hall for use of facilities of the Museum of Natural History and editorial assistance. I thank Prof. Laurence C. Stuart and Prof. Edward H. Taylor for information and suggestions. My own field experience in Middle America came as a result of assisting Professor Duellman in his own researches supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation . For these things I am deeply grateful. Specimens that I have seen alive were collected by field companions Dale L. Hoyt and Jerome B. Tulecke. Finally, I am grateful to my wife, Margaret L. Wellman, for much help including typing much of the manuscript.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

Measurements were taken to the nearest millimeter by means of a millimeter stick. Body length is the distance from the tip of the snout to the posterior edge of the anal plate; tail length, from the latter point to the tip of the tail; and total length, the sum of the body plus tail.

Descriptions of color are based on preserved specimens. Where descriptions of the color of living individuals are given, the data were taken from Kodachrome slides made available to me by William E. Duellman. Due to the transient nature of the longitudinal dark stripes in these snakes, no standard terminology has been devised, except that the posterior continuations of the stripes which on the head pass through the eye are termed lateral stripes; the posterior continuations of the median stripe of the head are termed dorsolateral stripes. A paravertebral stripe is one that is present on the scale-row on either side of, but not including, the mid-dorsal scale-row.

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