660 13. COLUBRJDM 



144. Coluber constrictor mormon (Baird & Girard) 



Western Yellow-bellied Racer 



Plate 63 



Coluber mormon Baird & Girard, Stansbury's Expl. Great Salt Lake, 



Appendix C, Rept., 1852, p. 351 (type locality. Valley of the 



Great Salt Lake, Utah). 

 Masticophis mormon Baird & Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., Pt. I, 



Serpents, 1853, p. loi; Stejneger, N. Amer. Fauna, No. 7, 1893, 



p. 208. 

 Bascanion vetustus Baird & Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., Pt. i, Serp., 



1853, p. 97 (type locality, San Jose, Calif.); Girard, U. S. Explor. 



Exped., Herp., 1858, p. 127, pi. VIII, figs. 12-19; Baird, Rep. 



Pac. R. R. Surv., Vol. X, No. 4, 1859, p. 11; Baird, Rep. Pac. 



R. R. Surv., Vol. X, 1859, pi. 36, fig. 6; Cooper, Rep. Pac. R. R. 



Surv., Vol. XII, 1859, pt. 2, p. 301; Lord, Naturalist Vancouver 



Island, Vol. II, 1866, pp. 3, 304; Stejneger, N. Amer. Fauna, 



No. 5, 1891, p. no. 

 Bascanium flaviventris Cope, Ann. Rep. U S. Geol. Surv. Terrs., 1871, 



(1872), p. 468. 

 Bascanium constrictor flaviventris Yarrow & Henshaw, Ann. Rep. Chief 



of Engineers for 1878, Surv. W. looth Merid., Appendix NN, 



1878, p. 213; Yarrow, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 24, 1883, p. no; 



Garman, Mem. Mus. Compr. Zool., Cambr., Vol. VIII, No. 3, 



1883, p. 147 (part); Nelson, Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci., Vol. XVI, 



1921, pp. 114, 115. 

 Coryphodon constrictor vetustum Jan, Elenco Sist. degli Ofidi, 1863, p. 



64; Jan, Iconogr. Gener. des Ophid. 22e livr., pi. 4, figs. 1-2. 

 Bascanium constrictor vetustum Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 1, 



1875, p. 40; Yarrow, Surv. W. looth Merid., Vol. V, 1875, p. 



541; TowNSEND, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. X, 1887, p. 240. 

 Bascanion constrictor vetustum Van Denburgh, Occas. Papers, Gal. 



Acad. Sci., V, 1897, p. 183, figs.; McLain, Critical Notes, 1899, 



p. 11; Grinnell & Grinnell, Throop Institute Bulletin, No. 



XXXV, 1907, p. 43; Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 191 1, 



p. 231; Richardson, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 48, 1915, p. 427; 



Ruthven & Gaige, Occas. Papers, Mus. Zool. Univ. Mich., No. 



8, 191 S> p- 29; Van Denburgh & Slevin, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 



Ser. 4, Vol. 5, 1915, p. 107; Dice, Univ. Cal. Pubis. Zool., Vol. 



16, No. 17, 1916, pp. 310, 31a. 



