ADDITIONAL NOTES ON BAHAMA SNAKES 



THOMAS BARBOUR 



The specimens which form the basis of this paper are now all 

 thejproperty of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cam- 

 bridge, Mass. 



In December, 1904, a paper^ was published in which a good 

 series of lizards but rather few snakes were re[)orted on. Now 

 an opportunity is presented to offer notes on about forty speci- 

 mens of Ophidians, for last winter Mr. A. E. Wight collected a 

 number of fishes and reptiles during February and [March; while 

 later Gustav Sabille returned to New York from Nassau with an 

 interesting lot of living snakes. These were also purchased and 

 advantage has been taken of this opportunity to study the species 

 while yet alive. Five examples of the New Providence Island 

 Boa from five to perhaps eight feet long have been presented to 

 the New York Zoological Society. They are still alive in the 

 Reptile House at Bronx Park, where shortly after their arrival 

 two specimens simultaneously gave birth to thirty-eight young. 

 I regret that I do not know the number ni each litter. ISIr. K. 

 L. Ditnuirs lias also told me that several s])ecimens of Alsophis 

 vudii ate a few Uiigualia' wliich were in the same case and have 

 refused other food. 



Since the afore-mentioned paper was published. Dr. Leonhard 

 Stejneger has published an excellent analysis of the herpetology 

 in a volume^ on the Bahamas edited by Dr. Shattuck of Baltimore. 

 In general I agree verv heartilv with Dr. Stejneger's conclusions, 

 but doubt whether Tijphlops lumhrlcal/'s will ever be found on 

 New Providence. I, as wt>ll as others, have searched carefully 

 for it on this island and have never heard of its occurrence. With 



'Barbour, Thomas. "Batrachia and Reptilia from the Bahamas." Bull. 

 Mus. Comp. ZooL, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 55-61. 



^The Bahama Islands. Edited by George Burbank Shattuck. The Cieo- 

 graphical Society of Baltimore; New York, The Macinilfan Co.. 190.^). xx.xii 

 + 630 pp., plates and text figs. 



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