ALABAMA AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES, 29 



GENUS: ELAPHE, Fitzinger. 



ELAPHE GUTTATA (Linne) {Coluber guttatus Linne) 

 Corn-Snake, Chicken Snake, Scarlet Racer 



Type locality : Carolina. 



General distribution : Maryland to Florida and Louis- 

 iana. 



Alabama records: St. Clair, Tuscaloosa, Mobile and 

 Baldwin counties. 



A beautiful and useful snake commonly found under 

 bark of dead pine trees in early spring. 



ELAPHE OBSOLETA OBSOLETA (Say) Coluber obsoletus 

 obsoletns (Cope) 

 Pilot-Snake, Blacksnake 



Type locality: "Isle au Vache to Council Bluffs on 

 the Missouri river. 



General distribution : New England westward to 

 Michigan, southward to Florida and Texas. 



Alabama records: None. The record of Cope (Rep. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. 1889. p. 846) based upon catalogue No. 

 5502, Sprout River, Alabama, proves upon examination 

 by Dr. Stejneger to be a mistake and should read: Sprout 

 River or Spout River, Arkansas. 



ELAPHE OBSOLETA CONFINIS (Baird and Girard) 

 Stejneger & Barbour {Coluber confinis Cope) 

 Gray Rat-Snake, Spotted Chicken-Snakb 



Type locality : Anderson, South Carolina. 



General distribution : South Atlantic and Gulf 

 States. 



Alabama records: Cherokee, St. Clair, Tuscaloosa. 

 Bibb, Montgomery and Mobile counties. 



A specimen recently examined by the writer measured 

 six feet and three inches. 



ELAPHE QUADRIVITTATA (Holbrook) Dum. & Bibr. 



{Coluber quadrivittatus Holbrook) 



Yellow Chicken-Snake, Yellow Rat-Snake 



Type locality: North Carolina to Florida and west 

 to the Mississippi River. 



