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part; Churchill’s Garter Snake; Dusky Garter Snake; Say’s Garter 
Snake; Striped Snake; Pickering’s Garter Snake. 
Ranee.—Almost throughout the state west and north of the south- 
eastern deserts. Recorded southeast to Yosemite Valley, Mariposa 
County (Van Denburgh, Occ. Papers Calif. Acad. Sei., 5, 1897, p. 203), 
to Kern River, in Kern County (Mus. Vert. Zool.), and to Riverside, 
Riverside County (Van Denburgh, loc. cit.). Southernmost station, 
Bixby, near Long Beach, Los Angeles County (Grinnell and Grinnell, 
Throop Inst. Bull, 35, 1907, pp. 48-49). Oceupies the Lower and 
Upper Sonoran and Transition life-zones. Lives along streams, 
sloughs, and lake-margins, and in wet meadows. 
Subfamily CoLuBRINAE 
Chilomeniscus cinctus Cope 
Banded Burrowing Snake 
OrieInAL Description.—Chilomeniscus cinctus Cope, Proe. Acad. 
Nat. Sei. Phila., 1861, p. 303. 
Type Locaniry.—Near Guaymas, east coast of Gulf of California, 
Mexico. 
Synonym.—Chilomeniscus ephippicus Cope, Proe. Acad. Nat. Sci. 
Phila., 1867, p. 85 (type from Owens Valley, Inyo County). 
Common Names.—Horse Snake; Red and Black Ground Snake. 
Rance.—Only two records, both from the southeastern deserts: 
from the type locality of ephippicus, as above, and from Fort Yuma, 
Imperial County (Van Denburgh and Slevin, Proce. Calif. Acad. Sei., 
ser. 4, 3, 1913, p. 410). Life-zone, Lower Sonoran. (See fig. 12.) 
Sonora occipitalis (Hallowell) 
Desert Burrowing Snake 
OrigINAL DescripTion.—Rhinostoma occipitale Hallowell, Proe. 
Acad. Nat. Sei. Phila., 7, 1854, p. 95. 
Type Locatiry.—Mohave Desert, California. 
Synonyms.—Lamprosoma annulatum Baird, U. S. Mex. Bound. 
Surv., 2, 1859, pt. 2, Reptiles, p. 22, pl. 21, fig. 1 (types from Colorado 
Desert) ; Lamprosoma occipitale; Chionactis occipitalis; Chionactis 
occipitalis annulatus. 
Common Names.—Desert Snake; Mohave Ringed Snake. 
