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Jlie state of New York, to the riiilosopliical Society of New York, ever since 
1816. 
22. Tritnrna viridescem. Olivaceous green above, with some faint brown spots, 
back carinated ; yellow beneath with sniull brown dotts : head unspotted, green 
above, yellowish beneath : an irregular row of bright and gilt red dotts along the 
sides : tail longer than the body, acute, very compressed. — A fine species found 
in Lake George, Lake Champlain, the springs and brooks of the neighborhood, 
&c. Total length four inches. It must form a peculiar subgenus Diemictylus, 
distinguished by the fore feet semipalmate with four equal toes, the posterior 
with only three toes and two lateral knobs ; jaws nearly equal, eyes elliptic, Sec. 
The iris is oblong, rather obliqual, gilt, with a longitudinal brown streak; eyes 
black. Its vulgar name is Green Ebbet. 
23. Triturvs iiebnlosns. IJrown above, clouded with f^iint and irregular grey 
spots, a row of tliem rounded on each side, fulvous beneath; back convex; lail 
carinated, obtuse, one-third of total length. — It is found near New York, at Har- 
lem and on Long-Island. Length two or three inciies. 
24. 'I'ritiims tniniatus. Entirelj' of a red or orange colour, covered with small 
brown granular dotts and some black dotts ; back carinated with a double row of 
scarlet dotts, surrounded by a black ring . tail as long as the body, carinated, ob- 
tuse. — A very pretty species, common in the states of New York, New Jersey, 
Connecticut, Vermont, &c. Vulgar name Ked Lizard or Kcd Ebbet. It is com- 
monly of the colour of red lead ; but varies with an orange or safrVon colour, 
l^ength two to four inches. Head oval obtuse flat, without dotts; eyes blackish 
%vilh an oblong and gik iris, it )>as almost all the characters of the sub-genus IH- 
emiciiilua ; but diflf'ers yet from it, by having tlie toes of the fore feet free and un- 
equal, the lateral ones much shoLter whence it may form another sub-genus, JV«- 
iopliihalmus There are at least thirty species of this genus in the United Slates. 
I know already well twenty of them. 
25. Jianaria f liana l.J melanota Back olivaceous black, a yellow streak on 
the sides of the head, chin throat and inside of the legs whitish, with black spots ; 
belly white, without spots. — A pretty frog, living in Lake Champlain and Lake 
(ieorge ; vulgar name Black Frog : total length two and and half inches. Eyes 
large, iris gilt violet. The anterior feet have four free toes, ar.d the hind feet five 
palmated ones. 
26. Crotulurus f Crotalus LJ catenates. Brown above, with achain-like row of 
v/hite spots on the back ; belly white, clouded with black. — Discovered by Mr. 
jjradbuiy, on the upper Missouri. Length eighteen inches, one hundred and 
forty -four abdominal scales and twenty-seven caudal scales- 
27. Crotulurus viridis. Green widi several rows of brown oblong spots, white 
belly. — Found also by Mr. Bradbury, on the Missouri. It was two feet long, slen- 
der snd with only three rattles. 
28. Crotalurus cyaiiurns. Body yellowish, with broad transversal brown bands, 
back grey between them ; head fulvous, a black oblong spot under the chin; 
tail black above, blue beneath. — It is found in Kentucky, Tennessee, Illinois, 
Missouri, Indiana, c£?c. Length about five feet. The hogs will not eat it. The 
Jiame of Crotalus being radical of Crotalana &c. I have altered it to Crotalurus. 
29. Coluber Kentukmsis. Back olivaceous brown, with four rows of brown 
spots, carinated scales and a central longitudinal streak bluish green ; sides bluish 
green, with two rows of brown spots ; belly whitish, uiispotted : two hundred abd. 
scales ; tail one-fifth of total length, with fifty pairs of scales. — Length three feet ; 
head black above, white beneath. Common hi Kentucky; called Garter snake, 
like all the snakes with streaked backs. 
30. Coluber similis. Back blackish, with a central yellowish streak, having two 
alternate rows of brown spots ; sides yellowish-white, spotted with black, belly 
white, each scale with two lateral black spots : tall one-fourth of total length. 
Abd. sc. 165; caudal 60 pairs. — Another species belonging to the streaked 
snakes, of which I know ten or twelve species in the United States. Length 
twenty inches ; dorsal streak extending over the tail, pale fulvous posteriorly. 
Dorsal scales carinated. — Foundin Kentucky. 
31 Coluber xaiithenipus. Blackish above, with some faint brown lines; white 
beneath, with a longitudinal and yellowish streak frow the neck to the vent, and 
spotted on the sides with red, marginated of black : tail two-sevenths of total 
length, with eighty caudal pairs of scales, 140 abdominal scales. — I fonnd it near 
Newburgh, state of New-York ; length tv.ei'.ty-five inches. Vulgar najTie water 
