420 GRASS-GREEN SNAKE. 



ner, frequently licking the wound, and making, 

 at intervals, ineffectual attempts to rise. In nine- 

 teen minutes, after a short cessation, he again be- 

 gan to howl; moaned often; his breathing became 

 laborious, and the jaws were completely shut. The 

 few succeeding minutes were passed alternately 

 in agony and stupor; and in twenty-six minutes 

 after the bite he expired. 



A second dog, of much smaller size, was next 

 bitten, and expired in the space of six hours. 



A rabbet was next exposed to the bite, and died 

 in less than an hour. 



After this a chicken was bitten in the pinion, 

 and expired in less than six minutes. 



All the above experiments were made with the 

 same snake in the course of the same morning. 

 It appears, therefore, that this species must be 

 numbered among the most poisonous of the whole 

 tribe. 



GRASS-GREEN SNAKE. 



Coluber Gramineus. C. viridis, subtus Jlavescens, abdominis 

 margine I'iridi maculato. 



Green Snake, yellowish beneath, with the edges of the abdo- 

 men spotted with green. 



Boodroo Pam. limsel Ind. Serp. p. 13. pi. 9. 



Abdominal scuta 170, subcaudal scales .38 pair. 



NEARLY allied, in general appearance, to the 

 C. mycterizaiis, nasutus, and purpurascens, but 

 having a larger head in proportion, and an ob- 



