118 JONES ON REPTILIA OF NOTA SCOHA, 



Emys insadpta — DeKay The Wood Terrapin^,. 



Emys jpulchella — Schweig, 303, 



E, scahra — Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sc. Phil, iv., 204.. 

 E. speciosa — Gray, Syn. 26. 

 E. inscripta — Mus. Par. 

 This species is generally found at a distance from water in the 

 forest, but goes into the lakes and burrows beneath the mud 

 during winter. 



Order— OPHIDIA. 

 Genus— COLUBER, Linn. 



Coluber constrictor — Linn Black Snake. 



C. constrictor — Shaw, ZooL, p. 464. 



C. flaviventris — Say, Exp. Rock. Mount., pp. 16T, 337,. 



Bascanion constiictor — Baird & Girard, Cat. of Serp.^ 



p. 93, 

 Coryphodon constrictor — Dunn & Bibr. vii. p. 183. 

 C. cofistrictor — Gunth. Cat. of Col. Snakes, p. 108. 

 Although this species is very rare in the neighbourhood of 

 Halifax, I imagine it is common in the interior of the colony, from 

 information I have received. A coloured man some time ago 

 informed me, that one of these snakes had chased him when a boy 

 the whole length of a field. I thought at the time that liis account 

 was much exaggerated, but I find from the best authorities that 

 this habit of chasing an enemy is fully established, and that its 

 force on such occasions is very great. 



This snake appears to be widely distributed on this continent ^ 

 being known from Canada to Mexico. It is also found in St- 

 Domingo, and, according to Stedman, in Surinam. 



Coluber pwnctatus — Linn Ring-necked Snake. 



C. punctatus — Lacep., ii. p. 257. 

 C. to)(puitus — Shaw, Zool. iii. p. 553. 

 Elomalosoma punctaium — Wagl. Syst. Amph., p. 191. 

 Spilotes punctatus — Swain's Nat. Hist., p. 364. 

 Calamaria punctata — Schleg. En. ii. p. 39. 

 Ablabes punctatus — Dum. «& Bibr. p. 310. 

 Diadophis punctatus — Baird & Girard, Cat. Serp. p. 112. 

 A specimen of this prettily marked species given to me by Dr. 

 GiLPiis was taken at Annapolis. Another, given me by Mr. Downs, 



