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in both species and individuals, while in the Catskills, not far 
away, there is a notable scarcity of snakes. 
I have adopted the terminology and classification of Cope, 
as set forth in his Crocodilians, Lizards, and Snakes of North 
America, though a note under the heading of Eutenza sirtalis 
expresses my dissent from his method of handling the sub- 
species of that group. 
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Carphophiops amenus (Say). 
Diadophis punctatus (Linn.). 
So far as my observation goes, very scarce in the southeastern 
counties. 
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Heterodon platyrhinus Latreille. 
Very common in sandy regions in Orange nx and southern 
Westchester County. I have never encountered the melanistic form 
which has been variously described as Æ. niger and H. p. niger, but 
Cope notes a specimen from Scarboro, Westchester County, and there ` 
is now in the New York Zoólogical Park a living specimen taken in 
Sullivan County. 
Liopeltis vernalis (De Kay). 
More common, | believe, in Orange County than east of the Hudson. 
Zamenis constrictor (Linn.). 
A very common species, both relatively and absolutely, in  south- 
eastern New Yor 
. Coluber vulpinus (B. & G.). 
Jordan (Manual Vertebrates Northern United States, eighth edition, 
P. 195) gives the range of this species as “ Massachusetts to Kansas, 
and north." Cope, however (Crocodilians, Lizards, and Snakes of 
North America, p. 831), states that it is not known from east of 
Illinois, and I have been unable to find any record of its occurrence 
in or near New York. 
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Coluber obsoletus obsoletus Say. 
Occurs in Orange County (and probably east of the Hudson), though 
much scarcer than Zamenis constrictor. 
Pityophis melanoleucus (Daudin) 
Included as a possible straggler over our southern border. 
Osceola doliata triangula (Boie). 
A rather common snake in Orange County ; less abundant, I believe, 
east of the Hudson. 
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Osceola doliata clerica (B. & G.). 
Cope quotes a specimen (U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 1407) whose locality 
is given as “(?) New York.” As this state is far beyond the most 
