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13. COLUBRIDJE 



157. Arizona elegans Kennicott 



FADED SNAKE 

 Plates 66 and 73 



Arizona elegans KENNICOTT, U. S. Mex. Bound. Surv., Vol. II, 1859, 

 Kept., p. 1 8, pi. 13 (type locality, "Rio Grande," Texas, and 

 "between Arkansas and Cimarron," Oklahoma); BAIRD, Rep. 

 Pac. R. R. Surv., Vol. X, 1859, p. 42; BOCOURT, Miss. Sci. Mex., 

 Rept., ne livr., 1888, p. 676; COCKERELL, American Naturalist, 

 Vol. XXX, April, 1896, p. 326; VAN DENBURGH, Occas. Papers Cal. 

 Acad. Sci., V, 1897, p. 193, figs.; McLAiN, Critical Notes, 1899, 

 p. 11; BROWN, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1903, pp. 549, 553; 

 VAN DENBURCH, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 3, Vol. 4, 1906, p. 66; 

 VAN DENBURGH, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, Vol. 3, 1912, p. 

 150; VAN DENBURCH & SLEVIN, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, Vol. 

 3> I9i3> P- 417; ATSATT, Univ. Cal. Publ. Zool., Vol. 12, No. 3, 

 1913, p. 43; STRECKER, Baylor Bulletin, Vol. XVIII, No. 4, p. 34; 

 GRINNELL & CAMP, Univ. Cal. Publ. Zool., Vol. 17, No. 10, 1917, 

 p. 192; STEJNEGER & BARBOUR, Check List N. Amer. Amph. Rept., 

 1917, p. 85; STEPHENS, Trans. San Diego Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. 

 Ill, No. 4, 1921, p. 64; VAN DENBURGH & SLEVIN, Proc. Cal. 

 Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, Vol. XI, 1921, pp. 52, 67. 



Pityophis elegans COPE, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 1, 1875, p. 39; YARROW, 

 Surv. W. looth Merid., Vol. V, 1875, p. 541; COUES, Surv. W, 

 looth Merid., Vol. V, 1875, p. 618; YARROW, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 No. 24, 1883, pp. 1 6, 108. 



Rhinechis elegans COPE, Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc., Vol. XXIII, 1886, 

 p. 284; COPE, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 32, 1887, p. 72; COPE, 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XIV, 1892, p. 638; COPE, Amer. Nat., 

 Vol. XXX, 1896, p. 1014; COPE, Report U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1898, 

 1900, p. 863; BROWN, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1901, p. 52; 

 DITMARS, Reptile Book, 1907, p. 314, pis. XCVI, fig. 2, XCVII, 

 figs, i, 4. 



Coluber arizona BOULENGER, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., Vol. II, 1894, p. 

 66. 



Description. Head flat-topped or slightly rounded, 

 with snout projecting and rather narrow. Temporal regions 

 not swollen. Rostral plate very large, prominent, recurved 

 between internasals on top of snout, and bounded behind by 

 internasal, anterior nasal, and first labial plates. Plates on 



