1184 



REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. 

 Crotalus tigris Kennicott. 



Catalogue 

 No. 



471 



472 



473 



5271 



Number 

 of speci- 

 mens. 



Locality. 



From wliom received. 



Sierra Verde, New Mexico . . A. Schott . 



do ! do 



do do 



Fort Buchanan, Arizona | Dr. B. J. D. Irwin, TJ. S. A . 



Nature of specimen. 



Alcoliolic. 

 do. 

 do. 

 do. 



Locality. 



18665 

 18666 



18667 

 186C8 



18669 

 18670 



18671 

 18672 



18673 

 18674 



Vegas Valley, Nevada 



Vegas Wash, Nevada 



Indian Spring Valley, Nevada. 

 Grapevine Mountains, Nevada. 



Adult . 

 Adult . 



Young 



Adult . 



Adult . 

 I Adult. 



; Adult . 

 Adult . 



Adult . 



Female 



adult. 



Alti- 

 tude 



Feet. 



Slate Eange, California 



PanaiuintMountains, Willow Creek, 

 California. 



Pauamint Mountains, Johnson Can- 

 yon, California. 



Panamint Mountains, Emigrant 

 Canyon, California. 



do 



Argu.s Range, Shepherd Canyon, 

 California. 



do 



Coso Valley, Maturango Springs, 

 California. 



do 



Owens Valley, Independence Creek, 

 California. 



3,100 

 5,500 



When 

 collected. 



1891. 

 May 1 

 May 2 

 May 29 

 June 6 



From whom 

 received. 



Merriam. 

 Bailey . . . 

 Merriam . 

 Nelson... 



Apr. 21 ! Stephens 

 May 17 j Nelson... 



5.000 I Mar. 30 \ Fisher. 



4,600 

 4,600 



6,500 



Apr. 16 



....do... 

 Apr. 29 



Apr. 27 

 May 11 



....do... 

 June 20 



Stephens 



...do. 



Fisher . 



do . 



Palmer 



do ... 



Stephens 



Remarks. 



3,000 feet 

 above salt 

 wells. 



CROTALUS PRICEI Van Denburgh. 



Crotalus pricei Van Denburgh, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1895, p. 856. 

 I copy the following description from Van Denburgh, as I have not seen 

 the species: 



Small; internasal and prefrontal plates large; anterior nasal in contact with ros- 

 tral; supraocular normal; nine supralabials; 153-159 gastrosteges ; two rows of 

 small dorsal spots; belly dark slate. 



Head subtriangular; rostral nearly as broad as high; two nasal, one loreal, and 

 two preocnlar plates; two internasals; four prefrontals; one to three rows of scales 

 between supraoculars; nine supralabials; nine infralabials, first pair in contact on 

 the median line; one row of scales between labials and orbit; scales in twenty-one 

 rows, parts of the lower two smooth ; gastrosteges one hundred and fifty-three to 

 one hundred and fifty nine; urosteges twenty-one to twenty-seven, the first and 

 from two to nine of the posterior ones usually divided; rattle very slender and 

 delicate. 



The general ground color is olive gray so thickly covered with minute brown <lot8 

 as to give the animal a decidedly brownish hue. A narrow dark brown band of 

 uniform width runs back and down from the eye just touching the upper angles of 

 the eighth and ninth labials without involving them. The scales below this band 

 are vinaceous cream. There are two small seal brown spots on the occiput. The 

 geneials and gulars are yellow tinged with vinaceous laterally. The rest of the 

 head is unicolor. Along each side of the back is a series of from fifty-four to sixty 

 small brown blotches. Anteriorly these have a tendency to alternate, but posteriorly 

 they unite with one another to form crossbars. There are seven similar brown bars 

 oil the tail. The dorsal blotches are seal brown, palest centrally, and are edged 

 with very pale brown or white. They are about one and one-half scales long, and 



