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County, and White Eagle Copper Mine, Burnet 

 County. 



122. FiciMiA CANA Cope. Dog-nosed Snake. 



A specimen from Duval County, Texas, is recorded 

 by Boulenger in his Catalogue of the Snakes in the 

 British Museum. 



123. Rhinochilus lecontei Baird and Girard. Le Conte's 



Snake. 

 Southern and Western Texas, north and east, lo- 

 cally, to Eastland and McLennan Counties. Speci- 

 mens have been recorded from the following locali- 

 ties: Waco (nine miles north). Midland, Midland 

 County, and Clear Creek, Burnet County (Strecker) ; 

 San Diego, Helotes, San Angelo, Fort Chadboume, 

 Menard County, and Desdemonia, Eastland County 

 (Cope) , Pecos (Brown) , and Rock Springs, Edwards 

 County (Bailey). A living specimen in the Texas 

 Cotton Palace zoo was captured at Hewitt, McLen- 

 nan County. 



124. Hypsiglena texana Stejneger. Texan Rock Snake. 



Known from only a few localities in the southern 

 and western sections. Brown mentions one from 

 Seymour, Baylor County. Specimens from San Diego 

 and Laredo are in the National collection. The type 

 was collected by Arthur Schott between Laredo and 

 Camargo, Texas. Cope does not mention this spe- 

 cies in his "Crocodilians, Lizards and Snakes of 

 North America," although it was published in 1893, 

 some time before his death. The Texas specimens in 

 the National Museum were listed under the name of 

 H. ochrorhyncha Cope, and texana is not mentioned 

 even as a synonjTn. Dr. Brown refused to recognize 

 texana as being distinct from ochrorhyncha, claiming 

 that the type must have been an abnormal specimen 

 and the characters assigned by its author of no value. 

 However, as Dr. Stejneger distinctly says that the 

 other specimens from Texas examined by him agree 



