Excerpt from Journal of the Federated Malay States Museums, Vol. 10: December, 1919 to December, 1922
This paper is based upon collections made during the past seven years. The total number of specimens examined amounts to nearly 900. In addition to those obtained in or near the Gull of Siam, I have been permitted to study, through the courtesy of the Director of the F.M.S. Museums, several fine collections made in the Straits of Malacca, chiefly off the coast of Perak. I have thus been able to compare large series of several different species from two entirely different localities, and the results have been of great interest.
Most of the specimens have been obtained by native collectors, working in conjunction with the fisher people. Nearly all have been caught at river mouths, where the water is slightly brackish, either by visiting the fishing stakes set a short distance out to sea, at the time of the daily haul, or by obtaining them from the nets or baskets placed within the river mouth. The collections from Pulau Angsa, off the coast of Selangor, from Bangnara, Patani, from Hua Hin, and a small one made at the head of the Gulf of Siam are exceptions to this. They were made in purely salt water, the snakes being caught while trawling, or in an ordinary hand net as they lay on the surface of the water.
Other means than the above of obtaining sea snakes are less productive. Some species are attracted by a light at night, and can be speared or netted. Enhydris hardwickii I have often known caught on a hook and line; and a certain number are to be found left on the beach by the receding tide.
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