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"Occurs in swamps and low grounds in Orange and .Dutchess 

 counties, bur Bcaroer in the Highlands." Eckel L901, p. 154 

 M Very common in Rockland county. 3 fVMace. L901 

 The milk snake (p. 374); the water snake (p. 377) and the blowinJ 

 adder (p. 368) an- frequently confounded with this species, though 

 bearing onjy a very superficial resemblance to it. 



22 Sistrurus catenatus catenatus (Rafinesque) 



Mhssdsauoa 

 'hard. '58, p. 88. C r o tal o p h or u a ter gem in us 

 Jordan, sistrurus catena) u b 

 Tail with a rattle. Head with nine symmetric plates in front ; 

 covered with scales behind. Scales in -j:> rows. Urosteges undivided, 

 except the last three to live, which arc bifid. 



Fig. 23 Sistrurus catenatus catenatus 



Ground color above, brown; hlotches deep brown to blackish, 

 with yellowish white margin; color beneath, blackish brown, inter- 

 mingled with yellowish. Length 24-30 inches. 



The rattle- of this species are much smaller than those of a banded 

 rattlesnake of equal length; and their sound is corresponding 



feel ilc. 



Described hv De Kay ('42, p. 57) as extralimital, this B p 

 was added r<> the New York faunal list hy Gebhard ('53, p. 22), 

 a specimen having been sent in by the Hon. Levi Fish, from the 

 n of Byron, Genesee co. Gebhard states further that in this 

 town -their habitat is a whire cedar swamp, containing an area 

 about one thousand acres. During the summer season, they leave 

 the swamp, and go into the adjoining fields of grain, where tliev 

 remain until fall, when they return to the swamp and hibernate." 

 No later rec -id exists <•!' their occurrence in New* York state; and 





