QUILL SNAKE. 523 



narrow, pale, distant lines running clown the whole 

 length, between which lines it is of a slightly flat- 

 tened shape. The number of abdominal scuta in 

 this specimen is J 85, and of subcaudal scales 90. 



QUILL SNAKE. 



Coluber Calamarius. C. Kvidus, fasciia transversis punctisquc 

 Imearibusfuscis, subtus albido fuscoque tesselatus. 



Livid Snake, with transverse brown bands and linear points, 

 and tesselated beneath with brown and white. 



Coluber Calamarius. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 275. Mus. Ad. Frid. 

 p. 23. t. 6.f. 3. 



Abdominal scuta 140, subcaudal scales 22. 



A SMALL snake, described by Linnaeus in the 

 Museum Adolphi Friderici : length about a span : 

 thickness that of a goose quill : colour above 

 livid, with the whole surface scattered over with 

 linear dusky points, and marked also by several 

 narrow transverse dusky bars : abdomen pale, tes- 

 selated in an alternate manner with dusky squares: 

 head very small, convex, and ovate : tail short, 

 and terminating rather obtusely: native of Ame- 

 rica. 



