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taken at [4218] Coquille River, vicinity of Mvrtle Point, Ore.; [26-57, 

 2658] Kaniksu Lake; [2659] vicinity of Mt. Carlton; [2649, 2650] Blue 

 Lake, Kootenai county, Idaho, and [2660-2662] Pullman, Putnam 

 county. Wash. 



43. Thamnopliia parietalis pickeringii (BAIRD & GIRARD). 

 An individual [4181] from Seattle, Wash. 



44. Thamnophis leptocephala (BAIRD & GIRARD). Two 

 [£27^ 4277] were collected at Port Townsend, Wash., by Mr. Snod- 



Tpass, and one [4269] at New Whatcom, Wash. 



45. Thamnophis elegans (BAIRD & GIRARD).® This spe- 

 cies has been taken in numerous localities: [4323] Guerneviile; 

 [4255-4258] Warm Springs Creek, near (Skagg's Springs; [4229-4231] 

 Wheatfield Fork, Gualala River; [4232] Knight's Valley Creek, near 

 Kellogg; [4219] Junction of the Wheatfield Fork and the Gualala 

 Kivcr, Sonoma county; [42-^3] Garcia River, ten miles from mouth; 

 [4250-4252] Navarro River, four miles fiom mouth; [4249] Big River, 

 seven miles from mouth; [4247-4248] viciniiy of IMendocino City; 

 (4244,4245 Garcia Hiver, half a mile above mouth; (4240,4241) Ten 

 Mile River; (4237-4238) Albion River, two miles below Comptclie; 

 (4236) (iarcia River, five, miles aliove mouth; (4233-4234) Robert's 

 Cieek, near Ukiah, Mendocino county; (4242-4243) South Fork of Eel 

 River, Garbervills, (4221) Garberville, Humboldt county; (4186) Fel- 

 ton, (4319i Soquel, Santa Cruz county; (4322) mountains between 

 Stanforu University and Spanishtown; (4272) Wright's Station, yanta 

 Clara county; (4265, 4267) (-iasquet's, Del Norte county, Cal., and 

 (4260) Deer Creek, Rogue River Basin; i4217) Coquille River, vicinity 

 of Myrtle Point, Ore 



Mr. Heller and Mr. Coolidge took a number of this species in the 

 8an Bernardino Monntains and a-t Blutt Lake. San Bernardino coun- 

 ty, Cal., respectively. These exhibited a great variation in the num 

 ber of scale rows — from seventeen to twenty-one rows, no number 

 being noticeably more aliundant. Three fipe.cimens in the collection 

 oi the Department (4245, 42()5, 4267) of this species have seventeen 

 scale rows. 



4^. Thamnophis vagrans (BAIRD & GIRARD): ThisGarter 

 snake has been taken at (4312-4313) Anderson, Shasta county; (4264, 

 4266' Gasquet's, Del Norte county; (4228) Mattole River, at White 

 Thorn, Humboldt county; (4169; Fyfle P. 0., > 1 Djrado county, Cal.; 

 (43.30) Deer ( reek, Josephine county. Ore., and (2664) Diamond Lake, 

 Stevens county. Wash. 



Three of these snakes (4330, 4266, 4228) have bnt nineteen scale 

 rows 



47. Thamnophis hammondii (KEN NICOTT). Specimens are 

 in the collection taken at (4324) Chino.San Bernardino county; ( I183i 

 Oak Grove. (1184) coast near CJarlsbad, and (1 IS7) Santa Isabel Valley, 

 San Diego county, Cal. Mr. Heller obtained the species in the Cuya- 

 maca Mountains and at Oak Grove in the latter county and at River- 

 side, in Riverside county. Cal. 



Mr. Coolidse collected a number at Riverside in which the num- 

 ber of scale rows vary from nineteen to twenty-one. t 



No. 4275 in the collection has nine sufierior labials on both siiles. 



Two specimens (43^6, 4373) fnmi Carmel Valley, Monterey coun- 

 ty, Cal., wljich 1 refer to this species, together with the occurrence 

 of several specimens of the siepiegeri i'orm^of Cm midoplioruis, waled 

 above, suggested the northward extension of the southern fauna 

 along the coast to that point. No lurther evidence is afforded by the 

 collection in the support of this, however, anil the variation in the 



* No. 4266 mentioned above has a bifid anal plate. 



t SiQC^ the above wrts written one (ITrii) from Fresno, Cat., has been found to have 

 but 17 scale rows. 



