418 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1893. 



exteud furtlier north tliau the southern limit of the hitter. It is found 

 from Indian Territory through western Texas to the Mexican border. 

 Its known range has recently been extended a considerable distance 

 west, as Dr. Timothy E, Wilcox has sent a specimen from Fort Hua- 

 chuca, Ariz. 



Mahits. — Nothing is definitely known, but the habits are probably 

 similar to those of the typical form, though it may have to be satisfied 

 with more arid localities. 



The GitouNi) Rattlesnakk. 



Sisiruntu ntiliarius,* (Liuiirens). 



Plate 7. 



1166.—Crotahis miliarins, Lixx.EUS, Syst. Nat., 12 ed., i (p. 372). — Datdin, 

 Hist. Nat. Rept., V, p. 328 (1803).— Say, Am. Jouni. Sc.,i, 1819, p. 263.— 

 Harlan, Joiirn., Phila. Acad., v, 1827 (p. 370).— Harlan, Phys. Med. Res. 

 (p. 134) (183.5).— ScHLEGKL, Ess. Pbys. Serp.,i, ]>. 193; ii, p. 569 (part) 

 (1837).— HoLiJROoK, N. Am.Herpet., 1 ed., ii, p. 73(1838). — DraiEitiL et 

 BiBRON, Erpot. Gen6r., vii, ii, p. 1477 (1854).— Jan, Rev. Mag. Zool., 18.59, 

 extr.,p.28.— Jan, Eleuc. Sist. Otid., p. 124 (1863).— Coi'k, iu Mitchell's 

 Res. Veil. Rattlesii., p. 124 (1861).— Garman, Rept. Batr. N. Am., i, 

 Opliid , p. 119 {lS8'S).—Crotalophonis miHarinn, Gray, Ami. Pliilos., 1825 

 (p. 205).— GRAYjCat. Sii. Brit. Mus., p. 17 (1849). — Holi5ROOK,N. Am. Hei- 

 pet., 2 ed., in, p. 25 (1842).— De Kay, Zool. N. Y., in, p. 57 (1842).— Bairu 

 and GiRARD,Cat. N. Am. Serp., p. 11 (1853). — Le Coxte, South. Med. Surg. 

 Journ., IX, 1853, pp. 651, 652. — Hallowell, in Sitgreave's Exp. ZuFii 

 Colo. Riv.,p.l47 (18.54). — Baird, Pac. R. R. Rep., x, Whipple's Route, 

 p. 40 (1859).— Ct)i'E,Pioo. Phila. Acad., 1859, p. 336.— Cope, Pioc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., xi,1888, p. 393.— Putnam, Amer. Natural. ,ii, 1868, p. 134.— Hay, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xv, 1892, p. SS^.—Caudisoiia miliaria, Fitzinger, 

 N. Class. Rept., p. 63 (1826). — C. ^nUiariiis, Gray, Zool. Miscell., ]>. 51 

 (1842).— Coi'E, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 1, Check list, p. 34 (1875).— Cope, 

 Proc. Am. Philos. Soc, xvii, 1877, p. 64. — Coi-e, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 

 17, p. 24 (1880).— CouES and Yakruw, Proc. Phila. Acad., 1878, p. 26.— 

 Trie, in Hammond's South Carolina, p. 235 (1883). — Yarrow, Bull. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 24, pp. 12, 78 (1883).— Sistrunts miUariits, Garman, N. 

 Am. Rept., i, Ophid., p. 177, (1883).— Garman, Bull. Essex Inst., xix, 1887, 

 p. 123.— Garman, Bull. Essex Inst., xxn-, 1892, p. 4.— Lcennkerg, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat, Mus., xvii, 1894, p. 335. 

 1799. — Crotalus miUaris, Beauvois, Trans. Am. Philos. Soc, iv, p. 367. 

 J^t«7Hms.— Catesbv, Carol., ii (pi. xlii) (1743). — Schlegel, Ess. Phys. Serp., Atlas, 

 1)1. XX, figs. 17, 18 (1837).— HoLiiKdOK, N. Am. Herpet., led., ii, pi. xv(1838).— 

 HoLBROOK, N. Am. Herpet., 2 ed., iii, pi. iv (1842).— Bau:!), Pac. R. R. Re].., 

 X, Rept., pi. XXIV, tig. 7 (1859). 



Description.] — Twenty-two or L';> dorsal rows of scales, all of which 

 are carinated, the lateral and first row but slightly; a vertebral brown- 

 ish red line; 7 series of blotches, I dorsal and 3 lateral, on each side, 

 the uppermost of which is obsolete, and the lowest subject to irregular- 



*From the Latin viiliarius, millet-like, with millet-like spots. 



t Description hy C. Girard, in Baird and Girard's N. Am. Serp., p. 11, from speci- 

 mens Nos. 498-502, U. S. Nat. Mus. 



