13. COLUBRID^ 



cured also in Mono (Benton), Kern (Walker Basin), Shasta 

 (Baird, Canoe Creek), and Siskiyou (Gazelle) counties. 



Habits. — These snakes usually are found in sagebrush. 

 They move with great swiftness either on the ground or in 

 the bushes. When secured they sometimes fight vigorously, 

 coiling themselves about the limbs of the bushes, biting, and 

 resisting capture to the utmost (Taylor). The stomach of 

 one specimen contained an adult Cnemidofhorus tigris 

 (Ruthven & Gaige). 



Genus 29. Salvadora 



Sak'aiiora Baird & Girard, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., Pt. I, Serp., 1853, 



p. 10+ (type, grahamitt). 

 Phimothyra Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., I860, p. 566 (type 



gra/iami^). 



The body is very long and slender, with long whip-like 

 tail. The head is distinct from the neck, large, long, flat- 

 topped, with truncate snout. Its plates are normal, except 

 the rostral, which is very large and has free lateral edges. 

 The nasal plates are distinct. Two preoculars, two postocu- 

 lars, and a loreal are present. Temporals are 1+2, 2+2, 

 2+3, or 3+3. The scales are smooth, in 17 rows, with two 

 apical pits. The anal plate is divided. Urosteges are in 

 two series. The eye is large, with round pupil. 



152. Salvadora hexalepis (Cope) 



Western Patch-nosed Snake 



Plate 71 



Salvadora grahami Jan, Iconogr. Gencr. Ophid., 2e livr., 1860, pi. Ill, 

 fig. l; Cooper, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Vol. IV, 1870, p. 66. 



Phimothyra grahamia Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1 861, p. 300; 

 Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. i, 1875, ?• j8 (part); Yarrow, 

 Rept. Surv. W. looth Merid., Vol. V, 1875, p. 538; Coues, Rept. 

 Surv. W. looth Merid., Vol. V, 1875, p. 620; Cope, Proc. Acad. 



