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There are two or three specimens of snakes I brought 
home not yet made out, which will perhaps be found to 
be new species. 
EvtarntA Pickertnew. (Baird and Girard.) 
Pickering’s Garter Snake. 
This snake I found on the Sumass and Chelukweyuk 
prairies, as well as along the entire course of the Bndy. 
Line to the Rocky Mountains. I also saw it in Cali- 
fornia and Oregon. 
They come out of their winter sleeping places in 
May, and then lay about the edges of the brush, lazily 
sunning themselves. About a month later coupling 
time arrives, when they get near the water, and are 
usually seen in small groups. In the hot summer 
weather they spend nearly the whole of their time in 
the water. They are quite harmless, and feed princi- 
pally on small Batrachians and insects. 
EUTAINIA LEPTOCEPHALA. (Baird and Girard.) 
The Small-headed Striped Snake. 
The same remarks apply to this as E. Pickeringii. 
EUTAINIA VAGRANS. (Baird and Girard.) 
The Large-headed Striped Snake. 
The same range and habits as the two preceding 
species. 
EvuTAINIA CONCINNA. 
The One-striped Garter Snake. 
Not so common on the west of the Cascades as the 
preceding species of Garter snakes, but I saw it at 
