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Head distinct from body. Body thick ; sometimes attaining 

 u length of three feet. 



A female specimen captured in Douglas county early in the 

 spring gave birth to thirteen young late in the following 

 August. The young varied in length from 8| to 9i inches. 

 All were marked like the adult. 



This snake occurs in Wyandotte, Leavenworth, Jefferson, 

 Douglas, Miami, Linn, Franklin, .Johnson and Osage counties. 

 It has never been reported from any other part of Kansas. 



Natrix fasciata Linmtus. 



Water Snake, Water Moccasin. 



Coluber fascial II n Lincaeus, Syst. Nat., I, 1761!, p. 378. 

 Tropidonotus fasclafus Dumeril and Bibron, Erp. Gen., VII, 1854, p. 5G6. 

 I'rojtido/iotus sipedon Cope, Checklist N. .^mer. Batr. Kept., 1875, p. 42. 

 Natrix fasciata Cope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XI, 1888, p. 392. 



KEY TO SUHSPECIBS. 



1. — V^entrals spotted: 



Cross bands on whole of back N. fasciata fasciata. 



Cross-bands in front; spots posteriorly X. fasciata sipedon. 



2. — Ventrals not spotted; neither dorsal nor lateral spots. 



N. fasciata erytlirogaster. 



Natrix fasciata sipedon Linnn'us. 

 Coluber sipedon Linna>us, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1758, I, p. 219. 

 Tropidonotus sipedon Holbrook, N. Amer. Herp., Ill, 1842, p. 29. 

 Tr(i]>idonotus sij^edon Cope, Check-list N. Amer. Batr. Rept., 1875, p. 42. 

 Trojiidonotus fasciatus (var.) sipedon Boulenger, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., 

 I, 1893, p. 244. 



Fig. U. 



Natrix fasciata sipedon LiQD. 



