90 ELAPSFULVIUS. 



opinion, between his beadsnake and the Elaps fulvius as there is between his 

 water viper and the hving Trigonocephalus piscivorus, or his small rattlesnake 

 and the Crotalus miliarius. Yet Dr. Garden's criticism* on him, in his letter to 

 LinnaBus, is too severe: "It is sufficiently evident that his sole object was to 

 make showy figm-es of the productions of nature, rather than to give coiTect and 

 accurate representations. This is rather to invent than to describe; it is indulging 

 the fancies of his own brain, instead of contemplating and observing the beautiful 

 works of God." 



Catesby did much; his drawings were done in the infancy of the art, as applied 

 to natural history, and those of his reptiles and fishes are the very worst part of 

 his work. 



It may furthermore be said, that this animal has been from time immemorial 

 called in Carolina the beadsnake, as the Coluber guttatus has been known under 

 the name of the cornsnake. 



* Smith's Correspondence of LinnEeus, &c., vol. i. p. 300. 



