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ilie stale of New York, to the Philosophical Society of New York, ever since 

 1816. 



22. Tritnrns viritlescem. Olivaceous green above, with some faint brown spots, 

 back (-.urinated ; yellow beneath with small brown uotls : head unspotted, green 

 above, yellowish beneath : an irregular row of bright and gilt red dotts along the 

 sides: tail longer than the body, acute, very compressed.— A Hue species found 

 in Lake George, Lake Champlain, the springs and brooks of the neighborhood, 

 &c. Total length four inches. It must fonn a peculiar subgenus Dicmictytus, 

 distinguished by the fore feet semipalmate with four equal toes, the posterior 

 with only three toes and two lateral knnbs ; jaws nearly equal, eyes elliptic, See. 

 The iris is oblong, rather obliqual, gilt, with a longitudinal brown streak; eyes 

 black. Its vulgar name- is Green Ebbet. 



23. Ttiturux titbu lotiu. Brown above, clouded with faint and irregular grey 

 spots, a row of them rounded on each side, fulvous beneath; back convex; tad 

 carinated, obtuse, one-third of tot;.! length.— It is found near New York, at Har- 

 lem and on Long-Island. Length two or three inches. 



24. Triturtu ■ Entirely of a red or orange colour, covered with small 

 brown granular dotts and some blacl J its j back carinated with a double row of 

 scarlet dotts, surrounded by ■ black rim; . tail as lung as the body, carinated, ob- 

 tuse. — A very pretty species, common in the states of New York, New Jersey, 

 Connecticut, Vermont, &c. Vulgar name lied Lizard or Ued Ebbet. It is com- 

 monly of the colour of red lead ; hut varies with an orange or saffron colour. 

 Length two to four inches. Head oval obtuse flat, without dotts ; eyes blackish 

 with an oblong and gilt iris. It has almost all the characters of the sub-genus IH- 

 emielyhu; but differs yet from it, by having the toes of the fore feet fi-cc and un- 

 equal, the lateral ones much shoiter whence it may form another sub-genus, Nv- 

 lophtkahmu There are at least thirty species of this genus in the: I'tiited Slates. 

 1 know already well twenty of them. 



25. Jiuiiaria f Rami l,J metanota Back olivaceous black, a yellow streak on 

 "the sichjs of the head, chin throat and inside of the legs whitish, "with black spots ; 

 belly white, without spots. — A pretty frog, living in Lake Champlain and Lake 

 George; vulgar name Black Frog : total length two and and half inches. Eves 

 ' »ge, iris gilt v iolet. The anterior feet have four free toes, and the hind feet five 

 palmatcd ones. 



26. Crotutwus Ci italtts LJ catenatiu. Brown above, with achaindike row of 

 white spots on the back ; belly white, clouded with black— Discovered by Mr. 

 Bradbury, on the upper Missouri. Length eighteen incites, o:ie hundred and 

 forty-four abdominal scales and twenty -seven caudal scales- 



27. Croialurit.; viridis. Green with several rows of brown oblong spots, wh'tto 

 belly. — Found also by Mr. Bradbury, on the Missouri. It was two feet long, slen- 

 der snd with only three rattles. 



28. Crotalurvt cyanuttts. Body yellowish, with broad transversal brown bands, 

 back grey between them; head fulvous, a black oblong spot under the chin; 

 tail black above, blue beneath.— It is found in Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois, 

 Missouri, Indiana, We. Length about five feet. The hogs will not eat it. The 

 name of Crolalua being radical of Croialaria i<.c. I have altered it to Crotulwus. 



29. Coluber Kentuk iwit. Hack olivaceous brown, with four rows of brown 

 spots, carinated scales and a central longitudinal streak bluish green ; sides bluish 

 green, with two rows of brown spot.-, , belly whitish, unspotted : two hundred abd. 

 .scales ; tail one-filth of total length, with fifty pairs of scales. — Length three feet ; 

 head black above, white beneath Common in Kentucky; called Carter Snake! 

 iike all the snakes with streaked barks 



30. Coluber titmUe. Hack blackish, with a central yellowish streak, having two 

 alternate rows of brown spots ; sides yellowish-white, spotted with black, belly 

 white, each scale with two lateral black spots: tail one-fourth of total length. 

 Abd. sc 165; caudal 60 pairs.— Another species belonging to the streaked 

 snakes, of which I know ten or twelve species in the United Stales. Length 

 twenty inches ; dorsal streak extending over the tail, pale fulvous posteriorly. 

 Dorsal scales carinated.— Foundin Kentucky. 



31 Coluba xaathempm. Mackish above, with some faint brown lines ; white 

 beneath, with a longitudinal and yellowish streak frow the neck to the vent, and 

 •potted on the sides with red, marglnated of black: tail two-sevenths of' total 

 lengOi, with eighty caudal pairs of scales, 140 abdominal scales.— I found it near 

 Newburgh, state of New-York ; length twenty -five inches, Vulgar name water 



