• • - .) 



VORK STATE MUSEUM 



•. p. 181) as captured in L861 at Wenham Mass. No other 

 simen has ever been found within the area here discussed, and 



Cope (1900) states that it does not occur east <>f Illinois. Morse 



(1901 », however, notes specimens from Ohio. 



8 Coluber obsoletus obsoletus (Say) 



De Kay. Coluber allegbanieasia 

 Jonlau. Callopeltis obsoletus 

 Scales in 27 rows, the L7 dorsal rows keeled. 

 Color above, black or dark brown, with or without darker quad- 

 rangular blotches; occasional scales with white markings; greenish 



white to Blate color below. 

 Length 50-75 incl 



Found in the Highlands. 

 1>< Kay, p. -"'T 



"Formerly quite com- 

 mon : now rare." Mearns. 



'98, p. 327 



"Occurs in Orange 

 county (and probably east 

 of the Hudson), though 

 much scarcer than Z;i- 

 ui en is constrictor. 

 Eckel. 1901. p. 152 



" Specimens captured 

 near Ithaca. June 4, 1S83, 

 and summer of ISSi* ; at 

 Chittenango, by D. Gk 

 Gates, Ap. 27, L889. A 

 specimen 150 cm long cap- 

 tured alive at Newfield 

 was Bent to Cornell uni- 

 versity in August 1S99." 



Fig. 9 Coluber obsoletus obsoletus 



Beed. L901 

 •• < teenrs in Rockland county/' 



Wallace. L901 



