ALABAMA AMPHIBIANjS AND REPTILES, 39 



tempt to bite me. I shudder now at the chances I took 

 solely upon the authority of "Brehm's Thierleben" in 

 which work this snake is said to be harmless to man.t 



FAMILY :CROTALIDAE* 



GENUS: AGKISTRODON, Beauvois. (Should have been 

 Ancistrodon.) 



AGKISTRODON MOKASEN Beauvois 



(Ancistrodon contortrix, Baird) 



Copperhead 



Type locality : America. 



General distribution : Massachusetts southward to 

 Northern Florida, westward to Illinois, Arkansas and 

 Texas. 



Alabama records : Walker, Jefferson, Shelby, Bibb, 

 Tuscaloosa Counties, and Mt. Vernon, Mobile County. 



AGKISTRODON PISCIVORUS (Lacepede) Cope 



Cotton -MOUTH Moccasin, Water Moccasin, Stump-tail 



Moccasin 



Type locality : Carolina. 



General distribution : Virginia to Florida and the 

 Gulf States. 



Alabama records : Tuscaloosa, Montgomery, Barbour, 

 Mobile, and Baldwin counties. 



This is the most common poisonous snake in the coast 

 counties. 



GENUS: SISTRURUS, Garman. 



SISTRURUS CATENATUS CATENATUS (Rafinesque) 

 Garman 



Massasauga 



Type locality : Prairies of the upper Missouri. 



General distribution : Western New York, through 

 Ohio to Nebraska, northward into Michigan and Onta- 

 rio, southward to Kansas and Alabama. 



Alabama records : Only one record of this snake from 

 the State has come to my notice, the specimen was cap- 



fSee Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 17:334, 1895. 



*A11 of the species belonging to this family are pois6nous. 



