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WHITE SNAKE. 



Coluber Niveus. C. totus albus immaculatus. 

 Snake entirely white, without any variegations. 

 Coluber nivcus. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 334. 

 Abdominal scuta 20p, subcaudal squamae 62. 



OBSERVED by Linnasus in the Museum of De- 

 geer : colour entirely white, without any spots : 

 said to be a native of Africa, and a poisonous 

 species. Linneeus, in the Systema Naturae, refers 

 to the fifteenth plate of Seba's second volume, 

 which represents a moderately large snake of a 

 white colour, with a few distant, small oblong- 

 black specks on the upper parts of the body, and 

 which is rather supposed by Mr. Merrem to be a 

 variety of the Coluber pullatus. 



MILK-WHITE SNAKE. 



Coluber Lacteus. C. albus, dorso maculis atris geniinatis, vcr- 



tice atro tinea longitudinals alba. 

 White Snake, with the back marked by double black spots ; 



the head black with a longitudinal white line. 

 Coluber Lacteus. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 381. 

 Abdominal scuta 203, subcaudal squamae 32. 



LENGTH of the specimen described by Linnaeus 

 about a foot and half: diameter scarcely that of a 

 finger: head ovate, with the top black, marked 

 by a longitudinal white line : eyes small : throat 

 white : trunk cylmdric, white, marked with 



