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the scrub oak with my hand, it making hardly any effort to 

 escape. It looked remarkably like a portion of the scrub oak, 

 or a bit of greenbrier. It escaped twice while I had it alive 

 as it was able to get through remarkably small, holes. On 

 one occasion I found it fast in a small hole through which it 

 could only get the fore part of its body. There it stuck until 

 released, and in its efforts to get away it had damaged some of 

 its scales. Another time it succeeded in getting entirely free 

 from its cage, and I found it tightly wound about the rounds of 

 a chair. 



Pituophis melanoleucus (Daudin). Pine snakes have been ob- 

 served by Mr. C. W. Leng and myself at Lakehurst, and near 

 Brookville. They are much hunted for their skins, which are 

 large enough to be used in the manufacture of pocketbooks, etc. 

 They are sold for about 40 to 50 cents each. 



Lampropeltis getulus (Linnaeus). Two specimens of the chain 

 snake were found at Lakehurst, by Mr. Joutel and myself on 

 June 30, 1907. The little one was in a decayed railroad tie,- and 

 the larger was endeavoring to burrow into the side of a cranberry 

 bog embankment. 



The large specimen was taken home alive, and on July 8 she 

 laid 16 eggs, about which I found her coiled. Though given 

 other snakes and toads, she refused all food. She was of a mild 

 and placid disposition. 



Agkistrodon contortrix (Linnaeus). I have found the copper- 

 head snake on the first range of mountains west of Somerville, 

 at Green Pond, and in the mountains near the state line at 

 Ramapo. It occurs also in considerable numbers at Newfound- 

 land. Mr. A. Radclyffe Dugmore informed me that several had 

 been killed near his home, and myself and friends have also 

 found several at Newfoundland. 



Crotalns horridus Linnaeus. A rattlesnake was killed by berry 

 pickers not far from Lakehurst in the summer of 1905 and 

 brought into the village. They are reported to be more common 

 near the Green Branch of Big Wrangel Brook. I saw a rattle- 



