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to naturalists by Catesby, who called it the green snake, and described its habits 

 very accurately. Linnaeus, however, gave the first scientific description of it, from 

 a specimen sent him by Dr. Garden, and called it Coluber sestivus, by which name 

 it has since been generally known. 



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