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SURINAM SNAKE. 



Coluber Surinamensis. C. cinereus, subtus subflavescens, corpore 

 fasciis ferrugineis suhundulatis transverses cincto. 



Cinereous Snake, yellowish beneath, with the body surrounded 

 by somewhat undulated transverse ferruginous bands. 



Anguis Surinamensis sonum edens. Seb. 2. t. S^.f. 2. 



An elegant species ; length about three feet and 

 a half : habit moderately stout or thick : head ra- 

 ther large, and furnished with largish scales in 

 front; colour of the whole animal cinereous, 

 marked from the neck to the end of the tail with 

 moderately broad, equidistant, and somewhat un- 

 dulated rufous-yellow bands or zones entirely sur- 

 rounding the body : tail of moderate length, gra- 

 dually tapering to the extremity : said to be a 

 native of Surinam : allied in habit to the Coluber 

 angulatus. 



CORN SNAKE. 



Coluber Carolinianus. C.Jlavescens, maculis magnis ferrugineis 

 albo nigroque marginatis, abdomine nigro variato. 



Yellowish Snake, with large ferruginous spots with black and 

 white margins; and abdomen variegated with black. 



Corn Snake. Catesb, Carol. 2. pi. 55. 



This is a highly beautiful animal, arriving 

 sometimes at a very considerable size, and mea- 

 suring five feet or more in length,, though com- 

 monly seen much smaller. Its habit or genera 



