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Rhinechis melanoleucus Dum^iril, Mem. Acad. Inst. France, vol. 23, p. 453, 1853. 



Pityophis melanoleucus Baird, U. S. Pac. R. R. Expl. and Surv., vol. 10, pt. 3, 

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Pituophis melanoleuca Gxjnther, Biologia Centrali-Americana, Rept., p. 125, 1894 

 (part) . 



Pityophis melanoleucos Terron, Mem. Rev. Soc. Cient. "Antonio Alzate," vol. 

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Pituophis melanoleucus melanoleucus Barbour, Proc. New England Zool. Club, 

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 pp. 2-3, 1932.— Burt, Journ. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 25, No. 8, p. 383, 

 1935. 



Original description. — Tliis form is described as Coluber melanoleucus 

 by Daudin (1803, p. 409) as follows: 



Cette espSce de couleuvre a 6t6 d^couverte par W. Bartram dans la Floride, et 

 il I'a d6crite assez 16gerement dans la Relation de son voyage: "Le serpent pin ou 



