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BROAD-NOSED SNAKE. 



to the extremity. This snake is found in Caro- 

 lina, Virginia, &c. frequenting moist woods, and 

 shady places, and preying on Lizards, &c. In the 

 British Museum is a large specimen which appears 

 to have been taken in the act of swallowing: a 

 pretty large lizard (Ameiva), and in consequence 

 of which the jaws are full as much dilated as those 

 of the Coluber^ corall'mus figured in a similar situa- 

 tion by Seba, and represented also in the present 

 work. 



BllOAD-NOSED SNAKE. 



Coluber Platurinus. C. albus fusco-maculatuSj corpore fasciis 



latisfuscis mnulato. 

 White Snake, spotted with brown, and annulated with broad 



brown zones. 



Serpens Guineensis rarissima Millio dicta. Seh. 2. t, 83./. 3? 



A HANDSOME spccics I habit somewhat resem- 

 bhng that of the CoL Natrix, but the tail rather 

 more slender in proportion : back slightly ca- 

 rinated, sides somewhat sloping, and abdomen 

 flattish : colour of the whole animal an equal va- 

 riegation of broad blackish-brown and white 

 bands, equidistant from each other, and entirely 

 surrounding the respective parts : the white bands 

 are spotted with black : head rather large than 

 small, covered with large scales of a black-brown 

 colour, elegantly separated from each other by in- 

 tervening white spaces, so that the head appears 

 marked with large black spots on a white ground : 



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