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period. Storer was the first to bring it to notice. That author 

 states that it has three spots on the neck, but I find a smaller spot 

 below the two side ones, joining with the mottled margin of the 

 underside. I think these spots on the neck are liable to alteration, 

 sometimes being partially absent, and at other times confluent, 

 while in some cases there are no traces of the marks at all. It is 

 liable to considerable change of colour — for two specimens which I 

 took from a heap of weeds were of a bright cmnamon above and 

 brick red beneath. These light coloured specimens may belong to 

 difierent species, for the scales appear to me to be much wider and 

 shorter, and possess blunter points, than those of the true occijpito- 

 maculatus. They resemble in some respects the red snake (C. 

 amaenus) of DeKay, but the scales instead of being smooth, as in 

 that serpent, are carinated. 



They are fond of lying under pieces of wood or stones, where 

 they can feel the sun's warmth, and are common ua old heaps of 

 refuse, roots, &c. 



This snake is not uncommon near Halifax. 



Order— ANOURA. 

 Genus — RAN A, Linn. 



Rana pipiens — Harl Bull-frog. 



R. pipiens — Holb. N. Amer. Herpet. iv., p. 77, pi. 18. 

 R. cateshiana — Shaw, Zool. iii., p. 106. 

 R. mugiens — Gunth. Cat. Bat. Lai., p. 15. 

 I have had no opportunity of studying the habits of this species, 

 as it is unknown in the neighbourhood of Halifax, and the only 

 examples I have seen were those exhibited by Captain Hardy at 

 our conversazione last summer in the hall of the Horticultural 

 Society. Captain Hardy informs me that they are common at 

 Grand Lake ; and the Rev. John Ambrose states that they have 

 been known to swallow young ducks. 



Rana fontinalis — Le Conte The Spring Frog. 



R.fontinalis — Holb. N. Amer. Herpet. vol. iii., p. 85 



pi. 16. 

 R. flavi-viridis — Harl. Am. Journ., vol. x. 

 This species occurs abundantly in Nova Scotia, and may be 

 styled the "common frog" of the country. It frequents the 



