40. THAMNOPHIS 829 
Upper Sonoran zones, while the striped snakes are more 
characteristic of the cooler zones of the mountains and 
coast. 
187. Thamnophis ordinoides vagrans (Baird & Girard) 
WANDERING GARTER-SNAKE 
Plate 89 
Eutainia vagrans Bairp & Girarp, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., Pt. I, Serp., 
1853, p. 35 (type locality, California); Grrarp, U. S. Explor. 
Exped., Herp., 1858, p. 154, pl. XIV, figs. 5-10; Cope, Ann. Rep. 
U. S. Geol. Surv. Terrs., 1871 (1872), p. 467. 
Eutenia vagrans vagrans Core, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 1, 1875, p. 
41; Yarrow, Surv. W. rooth Merid., Vol. V, p. 551. 
Eutenia Henshawi Yarrow, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. VI, 1883, p. 
¥A 152 (type locality, Ft. Walla Walla, Wash.). 
Eutenia elegans lineolata Cope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XIV, 1892, 
p- 655 (part). 
Eutenia elegans vagrans Core, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XIV, 1892, 
p. 656; Core, Report U.S. Nat. Mus. for 1898, 1900, p. 1039 (part); 
Dirmars, Reptile Book, 1907, p. 228, pl. LXX, fig. 1. 
Eutenia sirtalis vagrans Taytor, Ann. Rep. Nebr. State Board Agric. 
for 1891, 1892, p. 325. 
Tropidonotus vagrans BouLenceER, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., Vol. I, 1893, 
p. 202. 
Thamnophis vagrans SteJNEGER, N. Amer. Fauna, No. 7, 1893, p. 213 
(part); Van Densurcu, Bull. U. S. Fish Com. for 1894, p. 57; 
Van Densurcu, Occas. Papers Cal. Acad. Sci., Vol. V, 1897, p. 
210 (part); Van Densurcu, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, Vol. II, 
1912, p. 158; Van Densurcu & Stevin, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 
Ser. 4, Vol. III, 1913, p. 419; Van Densurcu & Stevin, Proc. 
Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, Vol. V, No. IV, 1915, p. 108. 
Natrix valida valida Cope, Report U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1898, 1900, pp. 
984, 986 (part). 
Eutenia elegans vagrans Brown, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1903, 
p- 290; Branson, Kansas Univ. Sci. Bull., Vol. IJ, No. 13, 1904, 
p- 364, figs. 4, 4a; Cary, N. Amer. Fauna, No. 33, 1911, pp. 27, 
40, 45. 
Thamnophis ordinotdes elegans RutHven, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 
61, 1908, p. 138 (part); RurHven & Gace, Occas. Papers Mus. 
Zool. Univ., Mich., No. 8, 1915, p. 32; GRINNELL & Camp, Univ. 
