Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana, in the year 1852 / by Randolph B. Marcy ; assisted by George B. McClellan. Page: 217 of 368
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APPENDIX ,--REPTILES.
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tract as they descend, those of each pair receding slightly from each
other, so as to cause the yellow portion to expand about one scale. The
black rings are continuous on the abdomen, those of contiguous pairs
(not of the same pair) sometimes with their intervening spaces black.
The scales in the white rings are always more or less mottled with black,
especially along the sides of the body, this mottling being very rarely
observable on the red portion. The anterior black ring of the first pair
is extended so as to cover the whole head above, except the very tip;
the white ring behind it involves the extreme tip of the occipitals.
A large specimen is much duskier in its colors. The black rings extend
on the back so that the contiguous rings of adjacent pairs run into
each other. There are 28 pairs of rings, the 25th opposite the anus.
Dorsal row of scales, 21; abdominal scutellse, 198; subcaudal ones,
45. Total length, 20 inches; length of tail, 2{ inches. Plate VIII
represents the largest of two specimens, caught June 14, near Sweetwater
creek.
VII. MASTICOPHIS, B.
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