THE SMOOTIL SNAKE. 59 
Those most likely to come across it doubtless 
destroy it in mistake for the adder, and thus it remains 
unrecorded. 
The smooth snake is hardly ever referred to as 
anything but the smooth snake in English, except 
oceasionally as the Dumfries snake. But it is given 
all the following specific names in various writings :— 
Coronella austriucus. Coluber dumfrisiensis. 
Coronella levis. Vatriv dunfrisiensis. 
Coluber ferrugineus. Lacholus austriacus. 
Coluber levis. Coluber thuringicus. 
Coronclla austriaca, 
Its classification (other than its specitic name) is the 
same as that of the ring snake (see p. 28). 
LITERATURE. 
The Zoologist, pp. 6731, B787, 9505. 
Bell’s Reptiles, p. 60. 
Sowerby’s Miscellanies. 
Intellectual Observer, vol. ili. p. 149. 
Lord Clermout’s ‘Quadrupeds and Reptiles of Europe.” 
Dr Gunther’s Catalogue of Reptiles in British Museum, 
The Field, September 13 and October 18, 1562. 
The Outlook, November 10, 1900, 
Aflalo’s * Walk through the Zoological Gardens.’ 
Science Gossip, No. 188, 1880. 
