FULVOUS SNAKE. 469 



ixose abrupt or truncated : tail very long, slender, 

 and gradually tapering to the extremity : length 

 of the whole animal about three feet and a half : 

 scales of moderate size, ovate, and not carinated. 

 Described from a specimen in the Museum of 

 Dr. William Hunter. Native country unknown. 



FULVOUS SNAKE. 



Coluber Fulvus. CfulDus, fusco maculatus, corpore fasciis ni- 

 gris annulato, cauda hrevissima. 



Fulvous Snake, spotted with brown, and annulated with black- 

 ish zones, with very short tail. 



Coluber fulvus. Lin. Syst. Nat, jp. 381. 



Abdominal scuta 218, subcaudal scales 31. 



, Very much allied in the disposition of its 

 colours to the preceding; the body being marked 

 by alternate black and yellowish zones, the yel- 

 lowish parts spotted with ferruginous : length 

 about a foot and half: tail very short, being 

 scarcely more than a twelfth of the wdiole length: 

 the head is brown above, and covered with large 

 scales. Native of North America. 



