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...loose rock on the island and after much search secured 16 species of reptiles, including, as near as we can tell from Waite's Reptiles of Southern Australia, all the topotype species at least--several geckos, two legless lizards, spring and long-tailed egernias, Amphibolurus, the small python which is common there, etc. . . There were thousands of a dark wedge-tailed Shearwater just about to commence breeding and smaller numbers of a small white-bellied one, which we learned later are described as local races. . . The land birds are very few, one--a little scrub wren described by Alexander...
From Cleveland's Museum of Natural History came Director Henry L. Madison to have a look. He said: "After consulting reptile texts I am convinced it is a Python molurus."† He also said the creature was big and strong enough to crush a horse. No one could decide how a Python molurus happened to be in Lake Erie...
Ordinary snakes were not sufficient to lend local color to the movie the University Film Foundation was planning to take of Dr. Thomas Barbour '06, director of the University Museum. So an eight foot python which has been loaned to the Museum by the Bronx Zoo will be requested to post with the director...
...bliss, gorging on succulent, ambrosial fruits, observing luxuriant inhabitants of the air where "giant ferns grew rank by fetid fens." Octans neatly despatched a ghost leopard that infested their paradise and all was serene until she asked him to pick a certain blue lotus. Then an "odious ophidian," a python regius of "lethal length," "leprous luster" and "fetid folds," embraced and kissed him so strenuously that he died, shattering her "cordon of dreams." She hated to leave when the battleship came to rescue...
...Every now and again he would leap in air, waving his legs -legs so prehensile that whenever Stecher wraps them around a wrestler's stomach, the wrestler falls down in agony. The old man, bent nearly double, seemed tired; he staggered when he dodged the python legs. His head hung forward on his neck, but that neck was nearly as big as the head itself, for the old man was Stanislaus Zbyszko, aging Polish wrestler, But what was this ? The crowd rose, shrieking; the referee slapped the old man on the back. Zbyszko had thrown Stecher...