54 BULLETIN 114, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



[Okeiinokee Swamp], and says another King snake was watching 

 the pair. One of our specimens (no. 6145), taken on June 15, 1912, 

 had 7 fair-sized eggs." 



C. S. Brimley (1903, 263) says: ''The eggs of the King snake 

 {Opliibolus getulus) are long, oblong in shape, with a smooth, tough 

 skin and are more or less adherent to one another in clusters." 



Range. — ^This form is known to extend from central New Jersey 

 to central Florida, and west from the coast to the Alleghenies and 

 to Mobile Bay, Alabama. On the west side of Mobile Bay it appears 

 to be entirely replaced by JioTbrooM, and in northern Alabama by 

 niger. The few specimens from the southwestern portion of the 

 range indicate that intergradation takes place in the region of a 

 line drawn from the point where the North Carolina-Tennessee 

 State boundary line meets that of Georgia southwest to Mobile 

 Bay. (The locality of specimen no. 2294, United States National 

 Museum, labeled ''Miss.," must be an error.) While there appear 

 to be no verifiable records north of New Jersey, numerous references 

 in the literature can not be overlooked. DeKay refers to it as 

 occurring in the "Brush Plains of Long Island" (1842, 38). Dit- 

 mars (1896, 13) says he has not heard of one being found in Long 

 Island or the vicinity of New York in the last five years. Baird 

 (1854, 21) says "it is quite maritime in its northern distribution, 

 being rarely found in the northern states except near the coast." 

 A specimen in the United States National Museum (no. 459), re- 

 ceived from the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, in 1858, bears the label 

 "New York." This may easily be an error. Hough (1852, 23) 

 reports this snake for Rossie, St. Lawrence County, New York, "of 

 common occurrence in this section of the state," and Eckel (1902, 

 376) refers to this record as one that "can not be neglected or sup- 

 pressed." Linsley (1843, 43) reports it at Milford, Connecticut, on 

 the word of a man whom he considers trustworthy. 



Besides the localities represented by specimens in the United 

 States National Museum, specimens have also been examined from 

 the following localities: Bridgeton, Point Pleasant, Port Republic, 

 Stafford's Forge, Vineland, Lakewood, Lakehurst, and Beesley's 

 Point, New Jersey; Williams, Maryland; Seaford, Delaware; Midway 

 Mills, Nelson County, Virginia; Bluff ton, Hampton County, and 

 Hilton Head, South Carolina; Raleigh, and Fort Macon (Carteret 

 County), North Carolina; Fargo, Savannah, and Billy's Island, 

 Okefinokee Swamp, Georgia; Orange Lake, Eustis, and Marion 

 County, Florida; Daphne, Baldwin County, Alabama. 



Published records for localities from which no specimens have 

 been examined are as follows: Port Tobacco, Maryland (Yarrow, 

 1878, 470); Rossie, St. Lawrence County, New York (Hough, 1852, 



