400 CROTALINE SNAKE. 



The Horn-Nose Snake is supposed to be a na*^ 

 tive of the interior parts of Africa. The specimen 

 was obtainied from the master of a Guinea vessel 

 by the Rev. Edward Charles Jenkins, of Charles^ 

 Town, in South CaroHna, by whom it was pre* 

 sented to the British Museum. 



CROTALINE SNAKE, 



Coluber Crotalinus. C. cinereus, svpra macntis magnis nigricans 



tihns alternisj subtus Jlavescens fusco hroratus. 

 Cinereus Snake, marked above with large alternate blackish 



spots ; beneath yellow, freckled with brown. 

 Coluber Crotalinus. Lin. Syst. Nat. Gmel. p. 10^4, 

 Abdominal scuta 154, subcaudal scuta 43, 



This, says Linnaeus, is a large species, with the 

 habit of a Rattle-Snake : colour cinereous, marked 

 above with large, alternate, blackish spots; the 

 under parts yellowish, freckled with brown : head 

 cordate, eyelids protuberant; tail about one se- 

 venth of the length of the body, and furnished 

 wath scutelia as in other Colubri. A specimen of 

 this Snake, in the British Museum, is about the size 

 of the Boa Canina: the head is broad, and obtusely 

 trigonal ; the scales are carinated, and the body 

 seems to have been banded with brown, but the 

 specimen being much faded, the disposition of its 

 colours cannot be very exactly determined. The 

 number of ^.bdominal scuta in this specimen is 

 150, and of subcaudal squamae 40, 



