40. THAMNOPHIS 829 



Upper Sonoran zones, while the striped snakes are more 

 characteristic of the cooler zones of the mountains and 

 coast. 



187. Thamnophis ordinoides vagrans (Baird & Girard) 



WANDERING GARTER-SNAKE 



Plate 89 



Eutainia vagrans BAIRD & GIRARD, Cat. N. Amer. Rept., Pt. I, Serp., 



"853, p. 35 (type locality, California); GIRARD, U. S. Explor. 



Exped., Herp., 1858, p. 154, pi. XIV, figs. 5-10; COPE, Ann. Rep. 



U. S. Geol. Surv. Terrs., 1871 (1872), p. 467. 

 Eutttnia vagrans vagrans COPE, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. I, 1875, P- 



41; YARROW, Surv. W. looth Merid., Vol. V, p. 551. 

 Eutttnia Henshatvi YARROW, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. VI, 1883, p. 



152 (type locality, Ft. Walla Walla, Wash.). 

 Eutttnia elegans lineolata COPE, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XIV, 1892, 



p. 655 (part). 

 Eutttnia elegani vagrans COPE, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., Vol. XIV, 1892, 



p. 656; COPE, Report U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1898, 1900, p. 1039 (part); 



DITMARS, Reptile Book, 1907, p. 228, pi. LXX, fig. I. 

 Euttenia sirtalis vagrans TAYLOR, Ann. Rep. Nebr. State Board Agric. 



for 1891, 1892, p. 325. 

 Tropidonotus vagrans BOULENGER, Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., Vol. I, 1893, 



p. 202. 

 Thamnophis vagrans STEJNEGER, N. Amer. Fauna, No. 7, 1893, p. 213 



(part); VAN DENBURGH, Bull. U. S. Fish Com. for 1894, p. 57; 



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



210 (part); VAN DENBURGH, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, Vol. Ill, 



1912, p. 158; VAN DENBURGH & SLEVIN, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 



Ser. 4, Vol. Ill, 1913, p. 419; VAN DENBURGH & SLEVIN, Proc. 



Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, Vol. V, No. IV, 1915, p. 108. 

 Natrix valida valida COPE, Report U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1898, 1900, pp. 



984, 986 (part). 

 Euttenia elegans vagrans BROWN, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1903, 



p. 290; BRANSON, Kansas Univ. Sci. Bull., Vol. II, No. 13, 1904, 



p. 364, figs. 4, 43; CARY, N. Amer. Fauna, No. 33, 1911, pp. 27, 



4, 45- 



Thamnophis ordinoides elegans RUTHVEN, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 

 61, 1908, p. 138 (part); RUTHVEN & GAIGE, Occas. Papers Mus. 

 Zool. Univ., Mich., No. 8, 1915, p. 32; GRIKNELL & CAMP, Univ. 



