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179-180) •; ''Young of other snakes, besides such lizards as the blue- 

 tailed and the swift, Avhich it hunts at night as these creatures 

 take refuge in the crevices of bark on fallen trees. The writer dis- 

 sected a specimen that had been killed in a barn, in Sullivan 



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Fig. 40. Distribution of Lampropeltis doliatus triangulus. 

 Horizontal ruling, specimens examined; vertical ruling, reports only. 



Countv, N. Y. The stomach contained five very voung rats" (Dit- 

 mars, 1907, 344) ; Matrix leheris (Queen snake) and mice (Atkinson, 

 1901, 150) ; mice Arvlcola rlparia, (Cope, 1900. 886) ; garter snake 

 (Merriam, 1878) ; Eumeces quinquilhieatus L. (Blue-tailed skink) 

 and the mouse Peromyscus 'bairdii (Kuthven, 1911a, 208). 



Range: The species has been reported from: Michigan (Sager, 



