SERPENS Biceps, or Double-headed Snake; a monster of the serpent kind, there being no permanent species of this conformation. That represented on Plate CCLXII. and copied from Edwards, came from the island of Barbadoes; and was said to have been taken out of an egg of the size of a small pullet's egg, by a man who found it under-ground as he was digging. The heads were not in an horizontal position when the snake lay on its belly, but inclined to each other on their under-sides, leaving an opening for the throat to come in between the two heads underneath, as is expressed at A. The upper-side, for the whole length, was covered with small scales, falling one over another; the belly was covered with single scales running across it, in the form of half rings. It was all over of a yellowish
Serpent. lowish colour, without any spots or variation. Mr Edwards also informs us that a person brought to him a common English snake, which had two heads quite separate from each other, the necks parting about an inch from the head.