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This is a favourite food of the natives of King George's Sound. COLUBER? Native name BARDICK.
Dirty olive green over the whole back; belly dirty white; scuta 130. The natives state that the bite produces great swelling of the part for a day or two, and goes off. Never grows above 14 or 15 inches long.
Caught October 1841. COLUBER.
Native name TORKITE or TORKYTE.
Back, from the point of the tail to the point of the nose, dark sepia brown; under the head yellow; and towards the middle of the belly orange; scales minute; scuta 140; tongue forked; teeth very minute; no fangs observable.
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