FULVOUS SNAKE. 46<? 



nose abrupt or truncated : tail very long, slender, 

 and gradually tapering to the extremity : length 

 of the whole animal about three feet and a half: 

 scales of moderate size, ovate, and not carinated. 

 Described from a specimen in the Museum of 

 Dr. William Hunter. Native country unknown. 



TULVOUS SNAKE. 



Coluber Fulvus. C. fulvus , fusco maculatus, corpore fasciis ni- 

 gris annulate, cauda brevissima. 



Fulvous Snake, spotted with brown, and annulated with black- 

 ish zones, with very short tail. 



Coluber fulvus. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 381. 



Abdominal scuta 218, subcaudal scales 31. 



VERY much allied in the disposition of its 

 colours to the preceding ; the body being marked 

 by alternate black and yellowish zones, the yel- 

 lowish parts spotted with ferruginous : length 

 about a foot and half: tail very short, being 

 scarcely more than a twelfth of the whole length: 

 the head is brown above, and covered with large 

 scales. Native of North America. 



