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in the Brooklyn Museum, was taken at Bellevue, Washington County, 

 Utah. Other altitude records are as follows: Hemet Lake, San 

 Jacinto Mountains, 4,400 feet; Wild Rose Spring, Panamint Moun- 

 tains, 4,060 feet; Hackberry, Arizona, 3,500 feet; Grand Canyon of 

 the Colorado, 3, 000 feet; south of Mount Sanhedrin, Mendocino County, 

 California, 2,340 feet; base of the San Jacinto Mountains, 2,200 feet 

 and 1,700 feet; Santa Ana Canyon, west side of San Bernardino Moun- 

 tains, 2,000 feet; Eldorado County, 2,000 feet; Jarupa Mountains, 

 1,200 feet; Turtle Mountains, 1,000 feet; Sonoma County, California, 

 1 ,000 feet. No other specific records are for more than a thousand feet . 

 Grinnell and Camp (1917, 186) record it as distributed "throughout 

 the southern and central parts of the State [California], except on 

 the high mountains (above 6,000 feet altitude)." But, as noted 

 above, the highest actual record is 4,500 feet. Since snakes are 

 found in California at much greater altitudes than this, notably the 

 coral king snake, multicinda, the absence of loylii from the moun- 

 tains must be considered as the expression of a habitat preference 

 or perhaps restriction, and this is quite in accord with what is 

 known of the other members of the group. 



Concerning its ability to live in the deserts, less is known. From 

 the desert region between Yuma and Tucson only yumensis has been 

 taken. There is no record of either form from the Mohave Desert 

 or Death Valley. The Death Valley expedition of the United States 

 Biological Survey collected in these and other desert regions of the 

 vicinity but obtained hoylii only in the vicinity of streams and at the 

 bases of mountains. 



Besides the localities represented by specimens in the United States 

 National Museum, specimens belonging to other museums have been 

 examined as follows: In California — Alameda County, Asuza and 

 Bairdsto\^Ti (Los Angeles County), Banning (Riverside County), 

 Beveridge Canyon on east slope of Inyo Mountains, Cabazon (River- 

 side Coimty), Camx^o (San Diego County), Cazadero and El Varano 

 (Sonoma (bounty), Forrest Lake (San Joaquin County), Gadwall, 

 (Merced County), near Guernevillo (Sonoma Coimty), Ilemet Lake 

 (San Jacinto Mountains), Irishes (Mendocino County), Jarupa Moun- 

 tains, La Puerta Valley (San Diego County), Los Angeles, near Mount 

 Hamilton (Santa Clara County), Mount Sanhedrin CNIendocino 

 County), Needles and Ontario (San Bernardino County), Owens 

 Valley (Inyo County), Pasadena (Los Angeles County), Piru (Ven- 

 tura County), Pleasant Valley (Mariposa County), Redondo Beach 

 (Los Angeles County), Riverside, Rumsey (Yolo County), San 

 Anselmo (Marin County), San Jacinto, Springs (San Luis Obispo 

 County), Tehachapai Mountains (Kern County), Tehama (Tehama 

 County), Turtle Mountains, Vacaville (Solano County), Vallecito 

 and Vallecito Creek (San Diego County), Vincent Creek, Wheatville 



