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New York, November 26, 1917. No. 51 



, OPEIA 



Published to advance the Science of cold-blooded vertebrates 



THE PINE SNAKE IN VIRGINIA. 



Records for the Pine Snake, Pituophis melano- 

 leucas (Daudin), outside of Florida and New Jersey 

 are few and far between. In fact the only ones I 

 have been able to find are the one in Brimley's North 

 Carolina list from Swain Co., N. C, and a specimen 

 in the National Museum from Blount Co., Tenn. 

 Both of these localities are in the Big Smoky Moun- 

 tains. 



It is of interest then that a dead specimen about 

 3' 6" long was found on August 19, on the road across 

 the "Spur" between Nimrod Hall and Milboro 

 Springs, in Bath Co., Va. 



This locality is in the Alleghany Mountains and 

 the altitude is about 1,000 feet. The road at this 

 point was bordered on each side by a rather steep 

 slope covered with laurel and rhododendron. 



This snake is fairly well known in Virginia as 

 the "bull snake." It does not seem to occur outside 

 of the mountains as all of the many stories of this 

 snake, reputed to reach a length of twelve feet, have 

 their scene in the western tier of counties. 



Emmett R. Dunn, 



Northampton, Mass. 



