28 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ALABAMA 



GENUS: OPHEODRYS, Fitzinger. 



OPHEODRYS AESTIVUS (Linne) Cope 



(Cyclophis aestiviis Cope) 



Rough Greensnake 



Type locality : Carolina. 



General distribution : New Jersey to Florida, west to 

 New Mexico and northward to Kansas and Illinois. 



Alabama records: Etowah, Jefferson, Tuscaloosa, 

 Montgomery, and Mobile counties. 



Usually found climbing in trees and hedges. 



GENUS: COLUBER, Linne. 



COLUBER CONSTRICTOR CONSTRICTOR (Linne) 

 (Zamenis constrictor Boulenger, Bascanhim constrictor Br.ird and 



Girard 

 Black Snake, Black Racer 



Type locality : North America. 



General distribution : Eastern United States west- 

 ward to Texas and the Great Plains. 



Alabama records : St. Clair, Shelby, Tuscaloosa, 

 Sumpter, Mobile and Baldwin counties. Probably com- 

 mon throughout the State. 



COLUBER FLAGELLUM FLAGELLUM (Shaw) 

 {Zamenis flagellum flagellum Cope; Bascanmm flagelliforme 



Cope) 

 Coach Whip, Whip Snake 



Type locality : Virginia and Carolina. 



General distribution : Virginia to Florida, west to 

 the Rocky Mountains. 



Alabama records : Tuscaloosa, Sumter, Barbour and 

 Mobile counties. Not uncommon in dry fields and cut 

 over pine lands in Mobile county.* 



This species and the preceding are probably the most 

 useful snakes in the State, on account of their food habit, 

 which consists largely of rats and mice, and their general 

 common occurrence within its borders. 



*I have seen this snake in pine forests on and near the moun- 

 tains in Cleburne and Clay Counties, and on May 28, 1921, I saw 

 one swimming across the Locust Fork of the Warrior River near 

 the mouth of Village Creek, Jefferson County. R. M. Harper. 



