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COACH-WHIP SNAKE. 



Coluber Flagcllum. C. longissimus, graciUimus, fuscus, abdo- 



mine pallido. 



Extremely long, slender, brown Snake, with pale abdomen. 

 Coach-Whip Snake. Catesb. Carol. 2. pi. 54. 



THIS is a veiy long and slender species, mea- 

 suring from four to six feet or more in length : its 

 colour is an uniform dusky brown, palest beneath : 

 it is, according to Catesby, its first describer, 

 " very active and nimble, running very swiftly: 

 inoffensive ; yet the Indians report, not without 

 gaining many proselytes to their silly belief, that 

 it will, by a jerk of its tail, separate a man in two 

 parts." It is a native of North America, and not 

 uncommon in Carolina and Virginia. 



CENCHOA SNAKE. 



Coluber Ce"nchoa. C. albidus gracilis, fasciis tramversis rhombea- 



tisfuscis, capite subgloboso. 

 Slender whitish Snake, with transverse rhomboidal brown 



bands, and subglobose head. 

 Coluber Cenchoa. tin. Syst. Nat. p. 389. 

 Anguis de Cencoatl Americanus. Seb. 2. t. l6.f. 2, 3. 

 Abdominal scuta 210, subcaudal scales 124-. 



A REMARKABLE species, growing sometimes to 

 the length of three or even four feet, yet scarcely 

 exceeding the thickness of a swan quill : head 

 very large, and nearly globular : neck extremely 



