60 COPEIA 



to 1890.* It is the only definite Long Island record 



for the species that we know of. 



Lophius piscatorius. From Mr. liaynor we have 



"Carpet-bag" and "Glutton" as local names for the 



Angler. Many Long Island fishermen loosely call 



it "Toadfish," although probably realizing that it is 



different from the smaller Opsqnus tau, for which the 



name is also used and to which it properly belongs. 



At Easthampton, according to Mr. J. L. Helmuth, 



some of the fishermen call Lophius, "Angler," and he 



has heard it called "Dogfish" by one resident. In 



1912 it was sometimes called "Muttonleg" by the 



crew of an off-shore beam-trawler who were bringing 



it head-less to the New York market. These notes 



may be of interest to anyone compiling a vernacular 



synonymy of the species. Tnrir ^ _. 



" W. Iv. Gregory, 



J. T. Nichols, 



New York, N. Y. 



GARTER SNAKE SWALLOWED BY 

 PIGMY "RATTLER" 



It is not generally known that the Pigmy or 

 Florida Ground Rattlesnake (Sistrurus miliarius) is 

 on some occasions inclined toward cannibalism. A 

 fine specimen eighteen inches long, lately disclosed 

 this inclination and clearly demonstrated that the 

 snake can swallow another considerably longer than 

 itself. 



On September 19, 1915, a captive Garter Snake 

 (Eutaenia sirtalis) twenty-one inches long, which had 

 been in my collection but a short while, gave birth to 

 a litter of fifteen young. Not having a spare cage in 

 which to put the mother and her offspring, I decided 

 to place them in a cage with two Pigmy Rattlesnakes. 

 On the following morning my attention was drawn 

 to what more resembled a distorted sausage than it 

 did a snake. It happened that one of the Pigmies 

 had killed and swallowed the Garter Snake. The 



* Bull. U. S. Bur. Fish. Vol. 31, pt. 2. 



