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Head distinct from body. Body thick ; sometimes attaining 

 n length of three feet. 



A female specimen captured in Douglas county early in the 

 spring gave birth to thirteen young late in the following 

 August. The young varied in length from 8i to 9i inches. 

 All were marked like the adult. 



This snake occurs in Wyandotte, Leavenworth, Jefferson, 

 Douglas, Miami, Linn, Franklin, Johnson and Osage counties. 

 It has never been reported from any other part of Kansas. 



Natrix fasciata Linnseus. 



Water Snake, Water Moccasin. 

 Coluber fascia f US Linngeus, Syst. Nat., I, 1766, p. 378. 

 Tropidonotus fasciatus Dumeril and Bibron, Erp. Gen., VII, 1854, p. 566. 

 Tr-ojndonotus sipedon Cope, Check-list N. Amer. Batr. Rept., 1875, p. 42. 

 Natrix fasciata Cope, Proc. U. S, Nat. Mus., XI, 1888, p. 392. 



KEY TO SUBSPECIES. 



1. — Ventrale spotted: 



Cross bands on whole of back , N. fasciata fasciata. 



Cross-bands in front; epots posteriorly N. fasciata sipedon. 



2. — Ventrals not spotted; neither dorsal nor lateral spots. 



N. fasciata erythrogaster. 



Natrix fasciata sipedon Linnajus. 

 Coluber sipedon Linnaeus, Syet. Nat., 10th ed., 1758, I, p. 219. 

 I'ropidonotus sipedon Holbrook, N. Amer, Herp., Ill, 1842, p. 29. 

 Tropidonotus sipedon Cope, Check-list N. Amer. Batr. Rept., 1875, p. 42. 

 Tropidonotus fasciatus (var.) sipedon Boulenger, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., 

 I, 1893, p. 244. 



Fig. 13. 

 Natrix fasciata sipedon Linn. 



