. Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. Biology; Zoology. Fig. 10: Naja nivea. Cape cobra. Drawing by Heinrich Claudius (Folio 156 from the Codex Witsenii). This rendition is accurate with respect to color, showing the yellow phase of this species that occurs in the Northern Cape Province. The il- lustration is remarkable for its dissected view of the venom apparatus. Text accompanying the drawing explains how the people of the region removed the venom gland and used it to poison their arrows and assegais. Reproduced with
. Bonner zoologische Beiträge : Herausgeber: Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn. Biology; Zoology. Fig. 10: Naja nivea. Cape cobra. Drawing by Heinrich Claudius (Folio 156 from the Codex Witsenii). This rendition is accurate with respect to color, showing the yellow phase of this species that occurs in the Northern Cape Province. The il- lustration is remarkable for its dissected view of the venom apparatus. Text accompanying the drawing explains how the people of the region removed the venom gland and used it to poison their arrows and assegais. Reproduced with permission from Wilson et al. (2002), courtesy Iziko Museums of Cape Fig. 11: Lacertid lizards (see Table 1 and associated notes for possible species identifications). Drawing by Heinrich Claudius (Folio 152 from the Codex Witsenii). Reproduced with permission from WILSON et al. (2002), courtesy Iziko Museums of Cape Town. Claudius' illustrations themselves were not published until the Twentieth Century. However, versions of his work reached a broad audience through secondary sources. CLAUDIUS donated several illustrations, includ- ing some of reptiles, to Father Guy Tachard (1648- 1712), a French Jesuit priest and scientist who visited the Cape in 1685 and again the following year. These illus- trations, including those of a "chaméleon" - Chamaeleo namaquensis (Fig. 12), "céraste" - Bitis cormita (Daudin, 1803) (Fig. 13), "grand lézard" - Cordylus cataphractus (Fig. 14), and "petit lézard" (unidentified; Fig. 15) ap- peared in Tachard'S Voyage de Siam (1686; Fig. 16). Several of these illustrations were subsequently used again in Gazophylacii Naturae (Petiver 1702-1709), from which work they were reproduced by GUNN & CODD (1981). Claudius' chameleon drawing was still being used by Bonnaterre (1789) more than a century after its initial rendering. CLAUDIUS' adder drawing also appeared, as did other older illustrations, suc
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