RATTLE-SNAKE. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Body covered with scales, and terminated by a rattle. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Crotalus horridus. . C. fusco-flavescens, fasciis transversis 
nigricantibus. 
Yellowish brown rattle-snake, with 
blackish transverse bands. Shaw Gen. 
Zool. 3. p. 317 * ph 88. 
Crotalus horridus. Scutis 1 67 > scu- 
tellis 23. Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. 1. 
p. 1080. 
Crotalus maculis trigonis fuscis. Bodd. 
Nov. Act. Ac. Cces. 7 . p. 10. no. 1. 
Caupisona terrifica. Lau.Amph. 1. 
p. 93 . no. 203. 
Banded Rattle-Snake. Sel. Mus. 2. t. 95 . f. l. Boigiuira. 
Kerr's La Cepede 4. p. 245. pi. 9 . 
f. 1 . Catesl. Car. 2 . pi. 41. 
Fortunately for mankind, these very dangerous 
reptiles are by no means so active as the rest of 
their tribe : they have not the power of springing 
upon the assailant, and have besides a rattle in the 
