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COACH-WHIP SNAKE. 



Coluber Flagellum. C. longissimus, gracillmus, fuscus, abdo* 

 mine pallido. 



Extremely long, slender, brown Snake, with pale abdomen. 

 Coach- Whip Snake. Catesb, Carol. 2. pi. 54. 



This is a very long and slender species, mea- 

 suring from four to six feet or more in length : its 

 colour is an uniform dusky brown, palest beneath : 

 it is, according to Catesby, its first describer, 



very active and nimble, running very swiftly: 

 inoffensive; yet the Indians report, not without 

 gaining many proselytes to their silly belief, that 

 it will, by a jerk of its tail, separate a man in two 

 parts." It is a native of North America, and not 

 uncommon in Carolina and Virginia. 



CENCHOA SNAKE. 



Coluber Cenchoa. C. albidus gracilis, fasciis transversis rhomhea- 



tis fuscisj capite subgloboso. 

 Slender whitish Snake, with transverse rhomboidal brown 



bands, and subglobose head. 

 Coluber Cenchoa. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. SSp. 

 Anguis de Cencoatl Americanus. Seb, 2. t. l6./* 2, 3. 

 Abdominal scuta 210, subcaudal scales 124.. 



A REMARKABLE spccics, growiug somctimes to 

 the length of three or even four feet, yet scarcely 

 exceeding the thickness of a swan quill : head 

 very large, and nearly globular : neck extremely 



