COLUBER QUADRIVITTATUS. 91 



Schlegel thinks this snake may prove identical with the Coluber Alleghaniensis, 

 to which, indeed, it bears considerable resemblance in form; but its colours are 

 entirely different and are constant; its habits and geographical distribution are 

 not the same: the Coluber Alleghaniensis lives constantly on the ground, but the 

 Coluber quadrivittatus I have often met with on trees; the one belongs to the 

 mountains, the other lives on the plains. 



