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Thamnophis ordinoides hammondii (Kennicott) 
California Garter Snake 
Ori@inaL Description.—Eutaenia Hammondii Kennicott, Proc. 
Acad. Nat. Sei. Phila., 1860 [1861], p. 332. 
Tyre Locauiry.—San Diego, California. 
Synonyms.—LHutaenia couchu, part; Eutaenia elegans couch, 
part; Tropidonotus ordinatus var. hammondu; Tropidonotus ordi- 
natus; Eutaenia marciana, part; Tropidonotus vagrans. 
Common Names.—Hammond’s Garter Snake, part; Water Snake; 
Couch’s Garter Snake; Marey’s Garter Snake, part. 
RanGE.—The southwestern portion of the state, chiefly in moun- 
tains west of the desert divides. Recorded north to Lone Pine, Inyo 
County (U. S. Nat. Mus.), to Kernville, Kern County, and vicinity 
of Fresno (Ruthven, U. 8. Nat. Mus. Bull., 61, 1908, p. 135). East- 
ernmost stations are: Laguna Mountains, San Diego County (Cope, 
Ann. Rep. U. 8. Nat. Mus., 1898 [1900], p. 1044) ; Palm Canon, 800 
feet altitude, San Jacinto Mountains (Atsatt, Univ. Calif. Publ. Zool., 
12, 1913, p. 43); Bluff Lake, 7500 feet altitude, San Bernardino 
Mountains (Mus. Vert. Zool.) ; and Mohave River at Victorville (Mus. 
Vert. Zool.). Oceupies the Upper Sonoran and Transition life-zones. 
Inhabits streams and margins of lakes and the near vicinity of same. 
Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis (Say) 
Western Garter Snake 
ORIGINAL DeEscripTion.—Coluber parietalis Say, in Long, Exped. 
to Rocky Mountains, 1, 1823, pp. 186-187, footnote. 
Type Locaurry.—Camp Missouri [near Council Bluffs, Iowa]. 
Synonyms.—Coluber infernalis Blainville, Nouv. Ann. Mus. Nat. 
Hist., 4, 1835, pp. [59-60] 291-292, pl. 26, figs. 3-3a (type from Cali- 
fornia); Eutaenia sirtalis obscura; Eutaenia sirtalis; Tropidonotus 
parietalis; Eutaenia proxima; Eutaenia imperialis (type said to be 
from Tomales Bay: Coues and Yarrow, Bull. U. 8. Geol. Surv. Terr., 
4, 1878, p. 280) ; Eutaenia sirtalis pickeringti; Thamnophis infernalis, 
part; Thamnophis elegans, part; Eutaenia concinna; Thamnophis 
parietalis; Eutaenia sirtalis parietalis; Eutaena sirtalis tetrataena; 
Eutaenia sirtalis dorsalis. 
Common Names.—Pacific Garter Snake, part; Rocky Mountain 
Garter Snake; Red-barred Garter Snake; California Garter Snake, 
