678 13. COLUBRIDA 
Habits.—One specimen is reported as found at a nest of 
Woodhouse’s Jay, where it was swallowing a young bird. 
A female captured near Tucson, Arizona, and sent alive to 
San Francisco, laid, on June 7, seven eggs which measured 
37x19, 38x19, 38x19, 39x19, 40x19, 43x19, and 43x18mm. 
They were enclosed in leathery shells roughened with gran- 
ules. Development in them had just begun, as blood ves- 
sels could be seen by transmitted Jight. 
148. Coluber lateralis (Hallowell) 
CaLiFORNIA RACER 
Plates 66, 68, and 69 
Leptophis lateralis HaLttowE.t, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Vol. VI’ 
1853, p. 237 (type locality, California); Hattowett, Rep. Pac’ 
R. R. Surv., Vol. X, Rept., 1859, p. 13, pl. IV, fig. 3a-3c. 
Drymobius lateralis Cooper, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Vol. IV, 1870, p. 64, 
Bascanium teniatum laterale Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 1, 1875, 
p- 40; Yarrow, Surv. W. tooth Merid., Vol. V, 1875, p. 543; YARROW 
& Hensuaw, Ann. Rep. Chief of Engineers for 1878, Surv. W. 1ooth 
Merid., Appendix NN, 1878, p. 215; Yarrow, Bull. U. S. Nat. 
Mus., No. 24, 1883, p. 113 (part); Townsenp, Proc. U. S. Nat. 
Mus., Vol. 10, 1887, p. 240. 
Coluber teniatus Garman, Mem. Mus. Compr. Zool., Cambr., Vol. VIII, 
No. 3, 1883, p. 148 (part). 
Bascanium laterale laterale Cope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XIV, 1891, 
(1892), p. 628. 
Bascanion laterale StE}NEGER, N. Amer. Fauna, No. 7, 1893, p. 209; 
Van Densurou, Occas. Papers Cal. Acad. Sci., V, 1897, p. 188; 
GrinnELL & GrinneELL, Throop Institute Bulletin, No. XXXV, 
1907, p. 45; Arsatt, Univ. Cal. Publ. Zool., Vol. 12, No. 3, 1913, 
P- 43- 
Zamenis teniatus BouLENGER, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., Vol. I, 1893, 
p- 390 (part); Mocquarp, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, 
Ser. 4, Vol. I, 1899, p. 324. 
Zamenis lateralis lateralis Cope, Report U. S. Nat. Mus., for 1898, 1900, 
p. 807. 
