

GREY SNAKE. 



Coluber Canus. C. canus, J'asciis transi'cnis obscuris f lateribus 



albo punctatis. 

 Grey Snake, with obscure transverse brown bands, and sides 



speckled with white. 

 Coluber canus. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 382. Mus. Ad. Frid. p. 31. 



t. II. f. 1. 

 Abdominal scuta 188, subcaudal scales 70. 



DESCRIBED by Linneeus in the Museum Aclol- 

 phi Friderici : the specimen was about a foot long, 

 and of scarcely a finger's thickness : head ovate, 

 angular, and covered with large scales : body 

 grey, with obscure brownish transverse bands, on 

 each side of which are two white specks, thus 

 constituting a row on each side the body near the 

 abdomen : tail about a fifth of the whole length, 

 slender, and round : native of South America. 



CAPE SNAKE. 



Serpens Africana annulata, ex promontorio Bonac Spci. Seb. 

 2. t. 4G./. 4. 



LENGTH about two -feet: colour above pale 

 blue, with numerous moderately distant, double, 

 red bands, like those of the Linnaean C\ JEscidapii, 

 but narrower, surrounding the body : head small, 

 covered with large scales, and marked by a broad 

 red band passing across the eyes ; at the back* of 

 the head by a much broader band : abdomen pale 

 rufous : tail of moderate length, gradually tapering 





