Item PZ 11.6 Notes - Hoplocephalus flagellum, The Little Whip Snake, by Frederick McCoy

Summary

Descriptive notes on a Little Whip Snake, Suta flagellum. Frederick McCoy, the first Director of The National Museum of Victoria, prepared these notes for Plate 11 in The Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria; Figures and descriptions of the living species of all classes of the Victoria indigenous animals. He originally referred to this species as Hoplocephalus flagellum, The Little Whip Snake.

These notes form part of the much larger Prodromus Collection. Many of the original illustrations and prints in the collection informed the production of The Prodromus, the first major publication of the National Museum of Victoria. Between 1878 and 1890, McCoy published his zoology 'Prodromus' as 20 parts in two volumes, with each part comprising 20 Plates. Unfortunately, almost 90 plates in the collection remain unpublished, and hundreds of illustrations were either not completed or not printed.