LIST OF VERTEBRATES. 63 



CLASS III. REPTILIA. THE REPTILES. 



Order IX. OPHIDIA. The Serpents. 



Family 18. COLUBRID-ffil. The Colubrine Snakes. 



Storeria, Baird & Girard. 



S. occipitomaculata (Storer). Red-Bellied Snake. Common. 



^Utainia, Baird & Girard. Garter Snakes. 

 E. saurita (L.). Riband Snake. Probable. 

 E. sirtalis (L.). Common Garter Snake. Striped Snake. Abundant. 



var. ordinata (L.). Common. 



var. dorsalis (Baird & Girard). Common. 



Tropidonotus, Kuhl. 



T. sipedon (L.). Water Snake. "Moccasin." Rather rare. 



Iiiopeltis (Fitzinger), Cope. 



L. vernalis (De Kay). Grass Snake. Green Snake. Rather common. 



Diadophis, Baird & Girard. 



D. punctatus (L.). Ring-necked Snake. Not common. 



Ophibolus, Baird & Girard. 



O. doliatus (L.), var. triangulus (Boie). Milk Snake. Adder. Spotted 

 Adder. Rather common. 



Heterodon, Beauvais. 



H. platyrhinus, Latreille. Spreading Adder. Adder. Blowing Viper. 

 Rather common. 



Family 19. CROTALID.^. The Rattlesnakes. 



Crotalus, Linnaeus. 



C. horridus, L. Common Rattlesnake. Not rare ; Springfield, Vt., and 

 vicinity, C. D. Hull. 



Order X. TESTUDINATA. The Turtles. 



Family 20. CHELYDRIDJE. The Snapping Turtles. 



Chelydra, Schweigger. 



C. serpentina (L.). Common Snapping Turtle. Abundant. 



