
488 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. | [Vor. XXXVI. 
Concerning the other localities I have no exact data as to the 
collecting range, and have therefore given the geographic 
position and elevation of the villages. 
DATA CONCERNING LOCALITIES DISCUSSED. 



LocArriTYy. jupe ied | LATITUDE. | LONGITUDE. 
1 | Moody, Franklin County, N. Y. ..... 1600” 44° 12° 74 39. 
zo dntervale, NA 0... 1i enm 540° 44? 157 71° 25° 
3 | Ausable Forks, Essex County, N.Y... . 600° 44° 26° 21" AT. 
4 | Westport, Essex County, N.Y....... SUI 44° 11* 73" 29 
5 | Rochester, Monroe County, N.Y. ... . 280° 43? 12" 77° 30 
6 | Oneida, Oneida County, N.Y.......- 440° 43? o6 75° 3 
7 | Rensselaer, Rensselaer County, N.Y. . . 60’ 42° 38’ 73° 44 



The specimens from Franklin County, N.Y., were collected 
by me during August, 1901, at Moody, a small settlement on 
the east shore of Tupper Lake. All the specimens from that 
locality described above (Nos. 1-10) were obtained at an eleva- 
tion of about 1600 feet A.T. Though the ophidian fauna of 
the Adirondacks appears to be scanty, so far as species are 
concerned, the few species occurring within the region are 
represented by numerous individuals. The specimens above 
described were not selected because of color, but are simply 
those which reached the museum alive and in good condition. 
The locality is, of course, well within the Canadian life zone, 
and the specimens can therefore be compared directly with 
those described by Allen from Intervale, N.H. 
As can be seen from the descriptions given (Nos. 1-10), the 
specimens obtained from this one small area furnished fairly 
good examples of three of the four subspecies credited to the 
Adirondacks, together with specimens intermediate between 
each pair of the three. If we omit the specific and higher 
characters, there is hardly one point in which the ten specimens 
agree. The dorsal stripe is, in most, somewhat indistinct ; but 
in one specimen it is quite bright throughout, and in others 
barely visible. In color it varies from dull brown to yellow — 
never gray or grayish. The spots are usually of chestnut 
scales, with black edges and interspaces; but the chestnut 

