REPTILES OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 



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Description. — Top of head nearly flat, covered with 

 small, smooth scales. Snout long, with a more or less 

 prominent high rostral 

 plate. Anterior labials 

 very high, but their 

 tips sometimes cut off 

 and appearing as small 

 scales below loreals. 

 Loreals usually three, 

 but their number not 

 at all constant. Seven 

 to ten scales encircling 

 eye. Scales on the 

 body smooth, imbri- 

 cate, nearly as wide as 

 long and arranged in 

 from thirty-five to for- 

 ty-three longitudinal 

 rows, lowest row on each 



side formed of larger scales. Gastrosteges narrow and 

 varying in number from two hundred and twenty-four to 

 two hundred and forty-one. From thirty-nine to forty- 

 seven urosteges. Spurs small, but easily seen at each 

 side a little in front of anus. 



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The color above is light bluish or brownish gray or 

 deep drab, with or without three more or less indefinite 

 reddish or yellowish brown longitudinal bands. The 



