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N' w FORK STATE Ml SI 



small Indistinct spots on each side ; below, greenish white; 



black blotches on gastrosteges near outer margins. 

 I union everywhere throughout the state, tfcbugh possibly many 

 ecimens Identified as belonging to this Bubspecies may have 



been really one of the three following. 



20d Eutaenia sirtalis obscura (Cope) 



Dusky garti r mafo 

 JordaD. Tbamnopbis sirtalis obscurus 

 A yellowish doreal band, with lateral bands less distinct: ground 

 •color, exposed between these bands, is uniformly brownish, caused 

 by the complete fusion of the spots Bhown on other subspecies j 

 t>elow, grayish green, with black spots near ends of gastro* 

 Specimens noted by Cope I L900) from We6tport, Essex co. 



2Qe Eutaenia sirtalis dorsalis B. A: (t. 

 Ri d (jarti r snake 



Jordan. Tbamnopbis sirtalis dorsalis 



Groundcolor brownish; Lateral stripes olivaceous; dorsal stripe 

 bright red ; lateral spots separated by red interspaces. 



From descriptions given in many of the fauna! lists published for 

 the region under consideration, I am led to believe that many speci- 

 mens from New England and northern New York are to be classed 

 with the "dorsalis" group, and I have therefore inserted a 

 description of its typical subspecii 



20f Eutaenia sirtalis pallidula (Allen) 

 I reneral color above, olive to olive brown ; dorsal stripe, except at 

 its inception, almost obsolete; the interlinear spots of reddish scales 

 with narrow black edgings and black interspaces. Belly, in young 

 specimens grayish white, in adults from grayish white to light 

 yellowish. 



The above description is quoted from Allen ('99) where the suh- 

 species is first described, a paper to which readers are referred for a 

 more detailed description. In this paper Mr Allen gives Its distribu- 

 tion as "from the White mountains of New Bampshire and the 

 Adirondack's of New York, northward into New Brunswick and 

 Nova Scotia, and possibly farther:" while in a later communication 

 the author he instances a specimen of this subspecies caught at 

 Chateaugay, Franklin co. N. V. 



