REVISION OF THE KING SNAKES. 



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from so short a distance west as Knoxville, Tennessee, with 73, and 

 even though the former specimen shows the bands narrower than 

 usual for getulus, these forms might be supposed from these specimens 

 to be distinct even where their ranges meet, but specimens from 

 Georgia and Alabama practically prove intergradation. The speci- 



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Fig. 10.— Map showing locautt records for Lampropeltis getulus kiger. 



mens from Marietta (fig. 34) and from Augusta, Georgia, cited by 

 Yarrow (1882, 91), have the cross bands very narrow, unlike any 

 typical getulus, but their number is 38 and 31, respectively, and one 

 would doubtless not hesitate to assign them to getulus. Specimens 

 from Ida and Gallant, Alabama, are decidedly niger, but one from 



