13. COLUBRIDJE 



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 43x1 8mm. 

 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 light. 



148. Coluber lateralis (Hallowell) 



California Racer 



Plates 66, 68, and 69 



Leptophis lateralis Hallowell, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Vol. VI' 



1853, p. 237 (type locality, California); Hallowell, Rep. Pac' 



R. R. Surv., Vol. X, Rept., 1859, p. 13, pi. IV, fig. 3a-3c. 

 Drymobius lateralis Cooper, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Vol. IV, 1870, p. 64. 

 Bascanium tceniatum laterale Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. i, 1875, 



p. 40; Yarrow, Surv. W. looth Mend., Vol. V, 1875, p. 543; Yarrow 



& Henshaw, Ann. Rep. Chief of Engineers for 1878, Surv. W. looth 



Merid., Appendix NN, 1878, p. 215; Yarrow, Bull. U. S. Nat. 



Mus., No. 24, 1883, p. 113 (part); Townsend, Proc. U. S. Nat. 



Mus., Vol. 10, 1887, p. 240. 

 Coluber taniatus 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 Stejnecer, N. Amer. Fauna, No. 7, 1893, p. 209; 



Van Denburgh, Occas. Papers Cal. Acad. Sci., V, 1897, p. 188; 



Grinnell & Grinnell, Throop Institute Bulletin, No. XXXV, 



1907, p. 45; Atsatt, Univ. Cal. Publ. Zool., Vol. 12, No. 3, 1913, 



P- 43- 

 Zamenis taniatus Boulenger, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., Vol. I, 1893, 



p. 390 (part); Mocquard, 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. 



