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the state of New York, to the Philosophical Society of New York, ever since 

 1816. 



22. Triturus mridescens. Olivaceous green above, with some faint brown spots, 

 back carinated ; yellow beneath with small brown dotts : head unspotted, green 

 aJDOve, yellowish beneath : an irregular row of bright and gilt red dotts along the 

 sides : tail longer than the body, acute, very compressed. — A fine species found 

 in Lake George, Lake Champlain, the springs and brooks of the neighborhood, 

 c^c. Total length four inches. It must form a peculiar subgenus Diemictylus, 

 distinguished by the fore feet semipalmate with four equal toes, the posterior 

 with only three toes and two lateral knobs ; jaws nearly equal, eyes elliptic, &:c. 

 The iris is oblong, rather obliqual, gilt, with a longitudinal brown streak; eyes 

 black. Its vulgar name is Green Ebbet. 



23. Triturus nebulosus. Brown above,, clouded with faint and irregular grey 

 spots, a row of them rounded on each side, fulvous beneath ; back convex ; tail 

 carinated, obtuse, one-third of total length. — It is found near New York, at Har- 

 lem and on Long-Island. Length two or three inches. « 



24. Triturus miniatus. Entirely of a red or orange colour, covered with small 

 brown granular dotts and some black dotts ; back carinated with a double row of 

 scarlet dotts, surrounded by a black ring, tail as long as the body, carinated, ob- 

 tuse. — A very pretty species, common in the states of New York, New Jersey, 

 Connecticut, Vermont, &c. Vulgar name Red Lizard or Red Ebbet. It is com- 

 monly of the colour of red lead ; but varies with an orange or saffron colour. 

 Length two to four inches. Head oval obtuse flat, without dotts; eyes blackish 

 with an oblong and gilt iris. It has almost all the characters of the sub-genus Di- 

 emictylus ; but difiEers yet from it, by having the toes of the fore feet free and un- 

 equal, the lateral ones much shorter whence it may form another sub-genus, No- 

 tophthalmus There are at least thirty species of this genus in the United States. 

 [ know already well twenty of them. 



25. Ranaria ( Rana LJ melanota. Back olivaceous black, a yellow streak on 

 the sides of the head, chin throat and inside of the legs whitish, with black spots ; 

 belly white, without spots.^-A pretty frog, living in Lake Champlain and Lake 

 George ; vulgar name Black Frog : total length two and and half inches. Eyes 

 large, iris gilt violet. The anterior feet have four free toes, and the hind feet five 

 paknated ones. 



26. Crotulurus ( Crotalus LJ catenatus. Brown above, with a chain-like row of 

 white spots on the back ; belly white, clouded with black. — Discovered by Mr. 

 Bradbury, on the upper Missouri. Length eighteen inches, one hundred and 

 forty-four abdominal scales and twenty-seven candal scales' 



27. Crotalurus viridis. Green with several rows of brown oblong spots, white 

 belly. — Found also by Mr. Bradbury, on the Missouri. It was two feet long, slen- 

 der snd with only three rattles. 



28. Crotalurus cyanurus . Body yellowish, with broad transversal brown bands, 

 back grey between them; head fulvous, a black oblong spot under the chin; 

 tail black above, blue beneath. — It is found in Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois, 

 Missouri, Indiana, &c. Length about five feet. The hogs will not eat it. The 

 name of Crotalus laeing radical of Crotalaria &c. I have altered it to Crotalurus. 



29. Coluber Kentukensis . Back olivaceous brown, with four rows of brown 

 spots, carinated scales and a central longitudinal streak bluish green ; sides bluish 

 green, with two rows of brown spots ; belly whitish, unspotted : two hundred abd. 

 scales ; tail one-fifth of total length, with fifty pairs of scales. — Length three feet; 

 head black above, white beneath. Common in Kentucky ; called Garter snake, 

 like all the snakes with streaked backs 



30. Coluber similis. Back blackish, with a central yellowish streak, having two 

 alternate rows of brown spots ; sides yellowish-white, spotted with black, belly 

 white, each scale with two lateral black spots: tail one-fourth of total length. 

 Abd. sc. 16S; caudal 60 pairs. — Another species belonging to the streaked 

 snakes, of which I know ten or twelve species in the United States. Length 

 twenty inches ; dorsal streak extending over the tail, pale fulvous posteriorly. 

 Dorsal scales carinated. — Found in Kentucky. 



31 Coluber xanthenipus. Blackish above, with some faint brown lines ; white 

 beneath, with a longitudinal and yellowish streak frow the neck to the vent, and 

 spotted on the sides with red, margina^ed of black: tail two-sevenths of total 

 length, with eighty caudal pairs of scales, 140 abdominal scales. — I found it near 

 Newburgh, state of New- York ; length twenty-five inches. Vulgar name water 



