596 THE NAME OF THE COACHWHIP SNAKE— STEJNEGER. vol.xvii. 



The next quotation often referred to our snake is Daudin's Coluber 

 Jiagelliformis,* but with no better reason, as it is a snake "supra Itete 

 viridis, subtus albidus,"t which Daudin confounds with another of 

 Catesby's green species, viz, i)l. lvii. This is, however, the Coluber 

 cestivus of Linuieus. As a matter of fact, Daudin refers Catesby's 

 representation of the true coach whip snake, viz, ^^AngmsJiageUi/ormis, 

 Catesby, Hist. nat. Carol, pi. 54," to his Coluber filiformis which conse- 

 quently becomes in part a synonym of Bascanion Jtagellum. 



^ Hist. Nat. Kept., vi, 1803, p. 380. 

 t Above light greeu, below whitish. 



