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stream." C. L. Camp refers to it as usually found in ^'brushy 

 localities." It is highly desirable in connection with its alleged 

 ^'mixing" with hoylii, that all possible information bearing on its 

 life history, habits, and habitat preferences be obtained and reported. 

 In particular it would be desirable to obtain records and notes on 

 complete broods of young. Breeding experiments, if they could 

 be carried out, should yield valuable information. 



Range. — This form is now known only from Fresno County, and 

 from Los Angeles County south through San Diego County and 



FiG.[.22.— Color patteen op Lampropeltis californiae californiae (U.S.N.M. no. 54363) from San 

 Diego County, California. About IJ x nat. size, 



just south of the international boundary. Further collecting will 

 doubtless show its range to extend weU south into Lower California, 

 where an area of intergradation with nitida may be expected. 



Published records for localities not included in the list of speci- 

 mens examined are as follows: Waterman's Canyon, and Cuyamaca, 

 California (Van Denburgh, 1912, 149, 151). 



Variation. — Specimens are too few and variation too slight for 

 the recognition of geographic differences in any characteristics 

 except pattern. The latter, as already remarked, is very constant 

 and distinctive in aU specimens examined from San Diego Coimty, 

 but farther north it is extremely variable. The pattern of these 



