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Kajimqr) (<Sj)aii. calliman). 

 Ailigator. 

 One of these animals was exhibited in a pool-room at Santa Fe. 



SNAKES 



Heterodon nasicus nasicus (Baird & Girard). Western Hog- 

 nosed Snake. 

 Recorded at Santa Clara, San lldel'onsc), and Abiqniu by Yarrow/ 

 and at Santa Fe by Cope.^ 



Zamenis constrictor JImnventris (Say). Blue Racer, Green Racer. 

 Recorded from Tierra Ainarilla by Yarrow under the name Z. c. 

 vetustum in his report, and under the name jiaviventris in his Check- 

 List. Cope records a young specimen which is ])robably the same.^ 

 Several snakes were seen at El Rito de los Frijoles early in August, 

 1910, which were probably this species, but they escaped and none 

 was seen afterward except a young specimen taken August 25, 

 beautifully marked, very much like the bull snake, quite unlike the 

 adult. A San Ildefonso Indian informant called this young specimen 

 nqj'ypscny,. (See p. 51.) Having no adult specimens we could not 

 learn whether they would recognize the young and adult as the same 

 kind or designate them by the same name, though the latter is highly 

 improbable. 



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Pityophis catenifer sayi (Schlegel). Bull Snake. 

 It is probably this species which was recorded as P. sayi mexicanus 

 Dum. & Bib., by Yarrow, at San Ildefonso.^ A bull snake was 

 described to us at El Rito de los Frijoles by Judge Abbott in 

 August, 1910, but he did not capture it for identification. 



TJiamnopJiis eques (Reuss). Brown Garter Snake. 

 Cope recorded Eutsenia eques aurata Cope from San Ildefonso, 

 and E. sirtalis dorsalis Baird & Girard from the same place. Yarrow 

 recorded Eutsenia ornata Baird at Abiquiu and San Ildefonso. These, 

 it appears, should all be referred to T. eques, wliich is recorded from 

 San Ildefonso by Ruthven.^ 



1 Yarrow, H. C, Report, op. cit., p. 556; Check-List, op. cit., p. 141. 



2 Cope, E. D., op. cit., p. 777. 



3 Yarrow, H. C, Report, op. cit., p. 542; Check-List, op. cit., p. 110. Cope, E. D., op. cit., p. 797. 



* Yarrow, H. C, Report, op. cit., p. 540. See Ruthven, A. G., in Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., xxm. 

 pp. 581-86, 1907. 



6 Yarrow, H. C, Report, op. cit., p. 554; Cheek-List, op. cit, p. 122. Cope, E. D.,op. cit., p. 1077. 

 Ruthven, A. G., Variations and Genetic Relationships of the Garter-Snakes, Bull. 61, U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 pp. 158-60, 1908. 



