Boa .. Spotted Boa. 
Head broad, and marked down 
the middle, and on each fide with 
four brown ftripes: body a red- 
difh white fpotteddown the back; 
along each fide and on the belly 
with a deep brown: tail round 
and comprelfed at the end: 
length about ten inches. Scuta 
on the belly 135: under the tail 
29. 
As the young of the Rattle- 
fnake are laid to want the rattle, 
it is doubtful whether this may 
not be the young of fome of its 
fpecies. Should it however be of 
this genus, and a native of North 
America, it may be that kind 
of Water Snake mentioned by 
Bricket in his Nat. Hift. of 
North Carolina; which he com¬ 
pares, for colour, to the Englilh 
Adder, which this refembles. 
He fpeaks of it as very common 
on the fea coaft, efpecially under 
the drift fea weed; and adds, that 
it is of the mifchievous kind. 
