40 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ALABAMA 



tured by Mr. Herbert H. Smith at Pratt's Ferry, Bibb 

 County, and is preserved in the Alabama Museum of Nat- 

 ural History. 



SISTRURUS MILIARIUS (Linne) Garman 

 Ground Rattler 



Type locality : Carolina. 



General distribution : North Carolina to Florida, 

 Westward to Oklahoma and Texas. 



Alabama records : University, Tuscaloosa County ; 

 Dothan, Houston County; Mobile and Baldwin Counties; 

 not uncommon on cut-over pine lands. 



GENUS: CROTALUS, Linne. 



CROTALUS ADAMANTEUS Beauvois 

 Diamond-Back Rattler 



Type locality : United States. 



General distribution : Southern North Carolina to 

 Florida, westward to Louisiana and Arkansas. 



Alabama records: Mobile and Baldwin Counties; of 

 rare occurrence. 



During my twenty-five years of residence in Mobile I 

 have spent hundreds of days tramping the woods in com- 

 pany with my friend, Mr. T. S. van Aller, covering 

 practically every section of the county and I have seen 

 only one specimen in its natural surroundings, and only 

 about a dozen specimens have been noticed, dead, skin- 

 ned or captured. 



CROTALUS HORRIDUS Linne 



TiMBETR Rattler, Banded Rattlesnake, Chevron Rattlesi 



Canebrake RATTLI21 



Type locality : America, 



General distribution : Maine to Georgia, westward to 

 the Great Plains. 



Alabama records: Tuscaloosa County, Lock 15, War- 

 rior River (Walter B, Jones, Nov. 1919), Pratt's Ferry, 

 Bibb County (Herbert H. Smith), Greensboro, Hale 

 County (Dr. W. C. Avery) ; Mobile County, two speci- 

 mens have been seen and identified by the writer after 

 having been skinned. 



