

CARACARA SNAK1 . 



Coluber Caracara. C. cccrulcus, squamis corporis antid elotigatii, 

 postlci rhombcis, collo tramri'crshn nigro stria to. 



Blue Snake, with the scales on the fore part of the body elon- 

 gated, of the hind part rhomboid, and the neck transvcrsly 

 striated with black. 



Coluber Caracara. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gtnel. p. 1 1 17. 



Serpens Cafacara Brasiliensis singularis. Seb. 2. t. 78-f- 3. 



Abdominal scuta 190, subcaudal scales 125. 



AN elegant species, described and figured in the 

 work of Seba : length about two feet and a half: 

 habit moderately slender : head rather large and 

 oblong; snout obtuse: from behind each eye a 

 black streak : colour pale blue, the hinder part 

 of the body being tinged with rose-colour : the 

 scales on the fore parts of the animal are of a 

 narrow, lengthened form, and on the hind parts 

 rhomboid, or of the usual shape : neck and fore 

 parts elegantly marked by numerous transverse 

 black lines, the scales on that part being tipped 

 at each end with black : tail rather long, and gra- 

 dually tapering to the tip : native of Brasil. 



VAR. ? 



IN this specimen, which is in the British Mu- 

 seum, the head is elegantly marbled with black 

 variegations, and the whole upper parts are varied 

 with black, though not in the same distinctly 

 linear manner as on the fore part : the abdomen is 

 perfectly plain or unspotted, and is marked by two 



