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WHITE SNAKE. 



Coluber Niveus. C* totus dlbus immaculatus» 

 Snake entirely white, without any variegations* 

 Coluber niveus. Lin. Si/sf. Nat. p. 334. 

 Abdominal scuta 209, subcaudal squamae 62. 



Observed by Linnaeus in the Museum of De- 

 geer : colour entirely white, without any spots : 

 said to be a native of Africa, and a poisonous 

 species. Linnseus, in the System a Naturse, refers 

 to the fifteenth plate of Seba's second volume, 

 which represents a moderately large snake of a 

 white colour, with a few distant, small oblong 

 black specks on the upper parts of the body, and 

 which is rather supposed by Mr. Merrem to be a 

 variety of the Coluber pullatus. 



MILK-WHITE SNAKE. 



Coluber Lacteus. C. albus, dorso maculis atris geminafis, ver- 



tice atro linea longitudinali alba. 

 White Snake, with the back marked by double black spots ; 



the head black with a longitudinal white line. 

 Coluber Lacteus. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 381. 

 Abdominal scuta 203, subcaudal squamae 32. 



Length of the specimen described by Linnaeus 

 about a foot and half : diameter scarcely that of a 

 finger : head ovate, with the top black, marked 

 by a longitudinal white line : eyes small : throat 

 white : trunk cylindric, white, marked with 



