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GREY SNAKE. 



Coluber Caniis. C. canns, fasciis transversis ohsciins, latcrihus 



albo pwictatis. \ 

 Grey Snake, with obscure transverse brown bands, and sides 



speckled with white. 

 Coluber canus. Lin. Syst. Nat. p. 382. Mus, Ad. Frid. p. 31. 



t. 11./. 1. 



Abdominal scuta 188, subcaudal scales 70. 



Described by Linnaeus in the Museum Adol- 

 phi Friderici : the specimen was about a foot long, 

 and of scarcely a finger s thickness : head ovate, 

 angular, and covered with large scales : body 

 grey, with obscure brownish transverse bands, on 

 each side of whicli are two white specks, thus 

 constituting a row on each side the body near the 

 abdomen: tail about a fifth of the whole length, 

 slender, and round : native of South America. 



CAPE SNAKE. 



Serpens Africana annulata, ex promontorio Bona? Spci. Seh, 

 2. t. 46./. 4. 



Length about two feet : colour above pale 

 blue, with numerous moderately distant, double, 

 red bands, like those of the Linneean C jEscidapii, 

 but narrower, surrounding the body : head small, 

 covered with large scales, and marked by a broad 

 red band passing across the eyes ; at the back of 

 the head by a much broader band : abdomen pale 

 rufous : tail of moderate length, gradually tapering 



