408 DAN BEARD'S ANIMAL BOOK 



In the "Serpents of Pennsylvania," by Prof. H. 

 Surface, the keeled green snake is only reported 

 from Lancaster and Dauphin counties. In the 

 magnificent Reptile Book by Raymond L. Dit- 

 mar, the author says of the keeled green snake: 



"Although widely distributed this reptile does 

 not range so far north as the other green snake. 

 Its habitat is from Southern New Jersey south- 

 ward through Florida and westward to the Missis- 

 sippi in the northern portion of its range. In the 

 South, it extends westward to California. It oc- 

 curs in Northern Mexico." From which it appears 

 that they have not before been reported as far 

 north as Wild Lands. Unfortunately, my speci- 

 mens of both kinds were carelessly allowed to es- 

 cape before the drawings were finished. The truth 

 is that I was more interested at the time in their 



ABILITY TO TIE KNOTS WITH THEIR TAILS 



than in making a record of the range of the dif- 

 ferent species, but I can positively state that I 

 picked up a specimen of the keeled green snake, 

 which I found sunning itself in the middle of the 

 road leading from Forest Lake Club to Wild 

 Lands. 



While engaged in this work my nephew cap- 

 tured 



A LUSTY MOUNTAIN BLACK SNAKE, 



and I got my camera ready, focused it and put 

 it in the hands of one of the party, and then tried 



