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General Remarks. Catesby first described the Black Snake, and accompanied 

 his description with a very good figure. Kahn subsequently gave a long account 

 of it in his travels, but he seems very credulous, and relates several absurd stories 

 as to its habits. Linnseus, by some great oversight, in the tenth edition of his 

 Systeraa Naturae, confounds this animal w^ith the Heterodon simus; which error, 

 however, he corrected in his twelfth and last edition.* 



* North American Herpetology, vol. i. p. 139. 



