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Oxford (Fichter, 1947); 4 mi. N of Oxford (MU 2); Reily (GF). Carroll Coun- 

 ty: Near Amsterdam, Loudon Twp. (OUVC 828). CHAMPAIGN CoUNTY: (OSM 

 495). Clermont County: Near Glen Este (CM 23956); Near Owensville, Stone- 

 lick Creek (CM 23954). Columbiana County: Elk Run Twp. (OSM 423). Co- 

 shocton County : 10 mi. E of Coshocton (OSM 820.1-2). Darke Countv: 

 Washinoton Twp. (OSM 686.1-2). Delaware County: Camp Lazarus, 3 mi. S of 

 Stratford (FR) ; Kilbourne (OSM 659). Franklin County : Flint (OSM 396); 

 Indian Run, near Dublin (OSM 826); Madison Twp. (OSM 739). Creene CoUN- 

 ty: Bellbrook (USNM 128918); Xenia (DPLM 194.42). Hamilton County: (SL 

 443, 467). Highland County: 1 mi. E of Rainsboro (WED 56). Hocking Coun- 

 ty: Ash Cave (HTG) ; Crane Hollow, 3 mi. S of Gibisonville (WED 350). HuRON 

 LouniY: I mi. S of New London (OSM 496). Jackson County: Jackson Twp. 

 (OUVC 572); Scioto Twp. (OUVC 1266). Logan County: East side of Indian 



Lake (Duellman, 1947). MONTGOMERY CoUNTY: Dayton (DPLM); Jefferson Twp. 

 (DPLM 120.42); 2 mi. S of Taylorsville Dam (DPLM 10.43); also the fo lowing 

 localities reported by Wood and Duellman (1947b) — Cricket Holler B.S.A. Camp and 

 Shaker Pond, Butler Twp.; Northridge, Harrison Twp.; Pinnacle Road, Miami 

 Twp.; and Hills and Dales Park, Van Buren Twp. PiKE CoUNTY: Pike State Forest 

 (WED 55); Richardson and Egyptian Hollows (USNM 128919). Preble CoUNTY: 

 21/2 mi. S of Gratis (DPLM 2.48). Ross County: Vigo (OSM 687). Scioto 

 County: Near Friendship (SL 463); Sec. 19, Madison Twp. (OSM 904). Vinton 

 County: Zaleski (OUVC 2173). Warren County: Ft. Ancient (UC 15; WED 

 200). Washington Counts- 6 mi. SW of Marietta (OUVC 1369). Wyandot 

 County: Upper Sandusky (OSM 726). Kauffeld reports a specimen from 3 miles 

 southwest of Winterset, Guernsey County. 



A considerable number of juveniles is now available for study. Among 

 forty-eight of these (including a few subadults in which the pattern is still 

 well evident) the number of dorsal blotches, from the head to a point directly 

 above the anus, varies from 29 to 40 with a mean of 34.6. The specimen from 

 Preble County (DPLM 2.48) is the smallest recorded for Ohio; it measures 

 287 mm. (H 5 16 in.) in totil length. 



An adult female, 4 ft. 11 in. in length (OSM 739 from Franklin Coun- 

 ty), was shot in a tree twenty feet from the ground as it was robbing the nest 

 of a red-headed woodpecker on July 9, 1936. 



Most Ohio specimens of Elaphe o. obwleta, in comparison with those 

 from the East (a large number from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the Del- 

 Mar-Va Peninsula have passed through my hands in recent years), are 

 decidedly brownish in coloration. Ohio pilot snakes, especially those from 

 the southwestern counties, are also likely to retain strong traces of th: juvenile 

 pattern even after they have reached relatively large size. Adult eastern speci- 

 mens tend to be jet black and to have the pattern obsolete or lacking entirely. 



Elaphe vulpina gloydi Conant 

 Eastern Fox Snake 



(Page 60; maps 13 and 50; plate 7, fig. 3 and plate 8, fig. 2) 



Studies made upon a series of more than 200 specimens from all parts 

 of the range have shown that the fox snake is separable into two subspecies 

 (Conant, 1940), chiefly on the basis of the size and number of dorsal blotches 

 (mean 34 in gloydi and 41 in vulpina) . The eastern form occurs in Ohio 

 near the western end of Lake Erie; it also is found (in Michigan an 4 On- 

 tario) in the general vicinity of Lakes Erie and St. Clair and Sr.g'n'w and 



