678 13. COLU BRIDGE 



Habits. One specimen is reported as found at a nest of 

 Woodhouse's Jay, where it was swallowing a young bird. 

 A female captured near Tucson, Arizona, and sent alive to 

 San Francisco, laid, on June 7, seven eggs which measured 

 37x19, 38x19, 38x19, 39x19, 40x19, 43x19, and 43x1 8mm. 

 They were enclosed in leathery shells roughened with gran- 

 ules. Development in them had just begun, as blood ves- 

 sels could be seen by transmitted light. 



148. Coluber lateralis (Hallowell) 



CALIFORNIA RACER 



Plates 66, 68, and 69 



Leptophis lateralis HALLOWELL, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., Vol. VI' 



'853, p- 237 (type locality, California); HALLOWELL, Rep. Pac' 



R. R. Surv., Vol. X, Kept., 1859, p. 13, pi- IV, fig. 3*-3C. 

 Drymobius lateralis COOPER, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Vol. IV, 1870, p. 64. 

 Bascanium tteniatum laterale COPE, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. I, 1875, 



p. 40; YARROW, Surv. W. looth Merid., Vol. V, 1875, p. 543; YARROW 



& HENSHAW, Ann. Rep. Chief of Engineers for 1878, Surv. W. looth 



Merid., Appendix NN, 1878, p. 215; YARROW, Bull. U. S. Nat. 



Mus., No. 24, 1883, p. 113 (part); TOWNSEND, Proc. U. S. Nat. 



Mus., Vol. 10, 1887, p. 240. 

 Coluber tttniatus CARMAN, Mem. Mus. Compr. Zool., Cambr., Vol. VIII, 



No. 3, 1883, p. 148 (part). 

 Bascanium laterale laterale COPE, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XIV, 1891, 



(1892), p. 628. 

 Bascanion laterale STEJNEGER, N. Amer. Fauna, No. 7, 1893, p. 209; 



VAN DENBURGH, Occas. Papers Cal. Acad. Sci., V, 1897, p. 188; 



GRINNELL & GRINNELL, Throop Institute Bulletin, No. XXXV, 



I 97> P- 45; ATSATT, Univ. Cal. Publ. Zool., Vol. 12, No. 3, 1913, 



P- 43- 

 Zamenii tttniatus BOULENGER, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., Vol. I, 1893, 



p. 390 (part); MOCQUARD, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat., Paris, 



Ser. 4, Vol. I, 1899, p. 324. 

 Zamenis lateralis lateralis COPE, Report U. S. Nat. Mus., for 1898, 1900, 



p. 807. 



