48. C ROT ALUS 



The color in life is bluish gray, more or less tinted with 

 hair-brown laterally, crossed by dark hair-brown bands. The 

 tail is salmon with lighter cinnamon-brown cross bars. The 

 gastrosteges and many of the scales of the first to fourth 

 rows are bright salmon pink. The tip of the tail is salmon. 



Length to anus 



Length of tail to rattle 



Distribution. — The range of this little rattlesnake extends 

 from Texas west across New Mexico to southeastern Arizona, 

 and south into Mexico. In Arizona, it has been found in the 

 Huachuca Mountains in Cochise County (at Fort Huachuca 

 and Carr and Ramsey canyons), at Cochise Stronghold in 

 the Dragoon Mountains, and at Onion Creek, near Paradise, 

 in the Chiricahua Mountains. 



Habits. — Mr. Slevin found one crawling up a granite 

 boulder on a hillside. Dr. Skinner and Mr. Slevin found 

 them on the talus slides where they could often be heard 

 rattling underneath stones that had been disturbed. They 

 invariably attempted to escape when approached. 



221. Crotalus pricei Van Denburgh 



Price's Rattlesnake 



Plates 105 and 119 



Crotalus pricei Van Denburgh, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 2, Vol. 5, 

 1895, p. 856 (type locality, Huachuca Mountains, Arizona); 

 Van Denburgh, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 2; Vol. 6, 1896, p. 349, 

 pi. L; Cope, Report U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1898, 1900, p. 1184; Brown, 

 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1901, p. 108; Stejneger, Proc. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., Vol. XXV, 1902, p. 158; Ditmars, Reptile Book, 

 1907, p. 462, pis. CXXIX, fig. 8, CXXX, fig. 6, CXXXIV, fig. 2; 

 Stone, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 191 1, p. 232; Van Denburgh 

 & Slevin, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, Vol. 3, 1913, p. 430, pis. 

 XXIV, XXVIII, fig. 3; Stejneger & Barbour, Check List N. 



