THAMNOPHIS 



Upper Sonoran zones, while the striped snakes are more 

 characteristic of the cooler zones of the mountains and 



1 87. Thamnophis ordinoides vagrans (Baird & Girard) 



Wandering Garter-Snake 



Plate 89 



Eutainia vagrans Baird & Girard, Cat. N. .Amer. Rept., Pt. I, Serp., 



1853, p. 2S (type locality, California); Girard, U. S. Explor. 



Exped., Herp., 1858, p. 154, pi. XIV, figs. 5-10; Cope, Ann. Rep. 



U. S. Geol. Surv. Terrs., 1871 (1871), p. 467. 

 Eutania vagrans vagrans Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. i, 1875, p. 



41; Yarrow, Surv. W. looth Merid., Vol. V, p. 551. 

 Eutania Henshatvi Yarrow, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. VI, 1883, p. 



152 (type locality. Ft. Walla Walla, Wash.). 

 Eutcenia elegans lineolata Cope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XIV, 1892, 



p. 655 (part). 

 Eutcenia elegans vagrans Cope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XIV, 1892, 



p. 656; Cope, Report U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1898, 1900, p. 1039 (part); 



DiTMARs, Reptile Book, 1907, p. 228, pi. LXX, fig. i. 

 Eutania sirtalis vagrans Taylor, Ann. Rep. Nebr. State Board Agric. 



for 1891, 1892, p. 325. 

 Tropidonotus vagrans Boulenger, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., Vol. I, 1893, 



p. 202. 

 Thamnophis vagrans Stejnecer, N. Amer. Fauna, No. 7, 1893, p. 213 



(part); Van Denburgh, Bull. U. S. Fish Com. for 1894, p. 57; 



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



210 (part); Van Denburgh, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, Vol. Ill, 



1912, p. 158; Van Denburgh & Slevin, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 



Ser. 4, Vol. ill, 1913, p. 419; Van Denburgh & Slevin, Proc. 



Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, Vol. V, No. IV, 191 5, p. 108. 

 Matrix valida valida Cope, Report U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1898, 1900, pp. 



984, 986 (part). 

 Eutcenia elegans vagrans Brown, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1903, 



p. 290; Branson, Kansas Univ. Sci. Bull., Vol. II, No. 13, 1904, 



p. 364, figs. 4, 4a; Carv, N. Amer. Fauna, No. 2,2,, 191 1, pp. 27, 



40, 45- 

 Thamnophis ordinoides elegans Ruthven, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 



61, 1908, p. 138 (part); Ruthven & Gaige, Occas. Papers Mus. 



Zool. Univ., Mich., No. 8, 1915, p. 32; Grinnell & Camp, Univ. 



