642 12. BOIDJE 



Pierce (Fort Steilacoom), Chelan (Lucerne), Yakima 

 Bumping Lake at 3,300 feet), Whitman (Pullman), and 

 Columbia (Blue Mountains), counties. Those from the 

 last two localities may possibly be C. bottce utahensis. 



In British Columbia, it has been collected in Lillooet 

 River Valley. Lord records it from Vancouver Island, the 

 woods along the bank of the Chelukweyuk River, and the 

 Sumass and Chelukweyuk prairies. 



Habits. This little snake is most abundant in moist 

 places, such as are found in the redwood forests of the Coast 

 Range. It is slow of movement, and very gentle. When 

 handled, it usually ties itself into a curious ball-like knot 

 often with the head hidden and the tail held as though it 

 were the head, which it much resembles. Like Lichanura, 

 it never tries to defend itself by biting. A female caught 

 in June contained large eggs. A specimen from Carmel had ^ 

 eaten six young mice. It regurgitated four of these when 

 handled, but soon swallowed one again. Cope records one 

 of these snakes captured in the act of swallowing a blue- 

 bellied lizard, and Mr. Slevin found one which had eaten 

 two of these lizards (Sceloporus occidentals occidentatis) . 



140. Charina bottae utahensis Van Denburgh 



GREAT BASIN RUBBER SNAKE 



Plate 60 



Charina botta VAN DENBURGH & SLEVIN, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 

 Vol. 5, No. 4, 1915, p. 106; STEJNEGER & HARBOUR, Check List 

 N. Amer. Amph. Kept., 1917, p. 74 (part); ORTENBURGER, Copeia, 

 1921, No. 100, p. 84 (?). 



Charina botta utahensis VAN DENBURGH, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, 

 Vol. 10, No. 3, 1920, p. 31 (type locality, Little Cottonwood 

 Canyon, Wasatch Mountains, Wasatch County, Utah); VAN 

 DENBURGH & SLEVIN, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, Vol. XI, 

 1921, pp. 40, 44. 



