648 13. COLVBRWJE 



141. Diadophis amabilis Baird & Girard 



WESTERN RING-NECK SNAKE 



Plate 61 



Diadophis amabilis BAIRD & GIRARD, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., Pt. I, Ser- 

 pents, 1853, p. 113 (type locality, San Jose, Cal.); BAIRD, Rep. 

 Pac. R. R. Surv., Vol. X, 1859, Pt. Ill, pi. XXXIII, figs. 83; VAN 

 DENBURGH, Occas. Papers Cal. Acad. Sci., V, 1897, p. 164, figs.; 

 COPE, Report, U. S. Nat. Mus., for 1898, 1900, p. 746 (part); 

 BROWN, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1901, p. 70 (part); GRINNELL 

 & GRINNELL, Throop Institute Bulletin, No. XXXV, 1907, p. 38; 

 DITMARS, Reptile Book, 1907, p. 337; GRINNELL, Univ. Cal. Publ. 

 Zool., Vol. 5, No. i, 1908, p. 164; HURTER, First Ann. Rep. Laguna 

 Marine Lab., 1912, p. 67; ATSATT, Univ. Cal. Publ. Zool., Vol. 12, 

 No. 3, 1913, p. 41; RUTHLING, Copeia, No. 15, 1915; GRINNELL & 

 CAMP, Univ. Cal. Publ. Zool., Vol. 17, No. 10, 1917, p. 184; STEJ- 

 NEGER & BARBOUR, Check List N. Amer. Amph. Rept., 1917, p. 

 75; COWLES, Journ. Entomol. & Zool. Pomona College, Vol. XII, 

 No. 3, 1920, p. 66; STEPHENS, Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 Vol. Ill, No. 4, 1921, p. 64. 



Diadophis pulchellui BAIRD & GIRARD, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., Pt. I, 

 Serp., 1853, p. 115 (type locality, El Dorado Co., Cal.); BAIRD, 

 Rep. Pac. R. R. Surv., Vol. X, 1859, Pt. Ill, pi. XXXIII, figs. 

 85, and Pt. IV, No. 4, p. n; STEJNEGER, N. Amer. Fauna, No. 7, 

 1893, p. 203. 



Ablabes punctatus (pulchellus) HALLOWELL, U. S. Pac. R. R. Surv., 

 Vol. X, 1859, Pt. IV, No. i, p. 24. 



Diadophis punctatus pulchellus COPE, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1860, 

 p. 250; JAN, Elenco syst. degli Ofidi, 1863, p. 49; JAN, Iconogr. 

 gnr Ophid., 156 livr., 1866, pi. VI, fig. 3; COPE, Proc. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., 1883, p. 27; TOWNSEND, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 Vol. 10, 1887, p. 239. 



Diadophis punctatus COOPER, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Vol. IV, 1870, p. 71. 

 Diadophis punctatus amabilis COPE, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. I, 1875, 



P- 37 (part); GARMAN, Mem. Mus. Compr. Zool., Cambr., Vol. 



VIII, 1883, p. 159; YARROW, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 24, 1883, p. 



95 (part); TOWNSEND, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1887, p. 239. 



Diadophis modestus BOCOURT, Miss. Sci. Mex., 1886, p. 623 (type locality , 

 California). 



