472 HISTORY OP 



Tittatusf! gartersnake: C. punctatus; greenish orange below, 

 a jightTing around the neck: C. amsenus; light brown with 

 Tiolet reflexions, head very small: C. eximius ; house-snake. 



The above species are at present included in several genera. 



Heterodon platlrhinus ; viper, harmless. Trigonocephalus- 

 contortrix ; copperhead. 



Sauria — Lizards. 

 Tropidolepis undulatus; inhabits woods, brown, mottled, 

 scales very rough, tail long, active, innoxious. Scincus fascia- 

 tus ; back with 5 yellow, stripes, tail blue. 



AMPHIBIA. 



Ranapipiens; bullfrog: R. halecina; shadfrog, green with 

 black spots : R, sylvatica; woodfrog, reddish brown, 2 inches : 

 R. palustris; brown, with rows of square dark brown spots, 3 

 inches: R. gryllus ; 1 inch long. Hyla versicolor; trecfrog, 

 treetoad. Bufo Americanus ; toad. Salamandra erythronota; 

 S. cinereain : woods, under logs and stones: S. longicauda : 

 S. maculata] S. fasciata] S. venenosal 



PISCES— Fishes. 



Of the fifty species of this class which are probably found 

 in our waters, we are not prepared to give a complete list, as 

 we have not yet compared the greater part of our specimens 

 with authentic individuals from other states ; and we are there- 

 fore in doubt as to the names they ought to bear. This remark 

 applies particularly to the species first made known by Dr. 

 Mitchill, and which were found in the w^atcrs of New York. 



The several dams in the Susquehanna, have nearly cut off 

 the supply of the shad, so important an article in domestic 

 economy, until a recent period, that families within twenty 

 miles of the fisheries, thought it impossible to pass through a 

 season unsupplied with a barrel of salted shad. 



Fishing is not conducted upon an extensive scale at present^ 

 the seine being employed fur the shad and herring alone. ThQ 



