. The geography of Texas, physical and political. tail, dark brown, eachwith a narrow distinct yellowish border. Interval rathernarrower than the spots themselves. A broad band of pur-plish red passes from head to tail through the blotches.^Common in all parts of the state. The Diamond Rattlesnake: general color yellowish gray, withrhomboidal blackblotches, lighter in thecenter, and with theangles ^ Found in the tim-bered river bottoms ofthe coast country. The Texas Rattlesnake:ground color abovedull yellowish brown,with a series of subhex-agonal patches fromthe head nearly to thetail
. The geography of Texas, physical and political. tail, dark brown, eachwith a narrow distinct yellowish border. Interval rathernarrower than the spots themselves. A broad band of pur-plish red passes from head to tail through the blotches.^Common in all parts of the state. The Diamond Rattlesnake: general color yellowish gray, withrhomboidal blackblotches, lighter in thecenter, and with theangles ^ Found in the tim-bered river bottoms ofthe coast country. The Texas Rattlesnake:ground color abovedull yellowish brown,with a series of subhex-agonal patches fromthe head nearly to thetail, in an uninter-rupted series separatedthroughout by narrowlines. ^ Found in westernTexas and the coastcountry as far east asMatagorda county. The Banded Rattlesnake:color above from tawnyyellow to dark brown ; beneath, whitish yellow to dark receives its name from a dorsal series of more or lessirregular and imperfect transverse bands or blotches. Frequents the timber. Found in widely separated localitieswhere proper conditions Fig. 53. Texas RattlksnakeFrom Baird 1 See The Poisonous Snakes of North America, by Leonhard Stejne-ger. Report of the United States National Museum for the Year endingJune 30, 1893, p. 419. Washington, 1895. =2Loc. cit., p. 434. 3Loc. cit., p. 437. 78 THE GEOGRAPHY OF TEXAS 9. The Dog-Faced Rattlesnake: general color above that of rollsulphur; beneath pale yellowish. Posteriorly, very faintlyclouded with brownish. Tail black. . Along the back isa series of transverse reddish or chestnut-brown lozenges. . .These lozenges are frames with the outlines generally onescale in width, and with the centers of the ground color;sometimes divided by a median line of brown so as to showtwo yellowish spots inside of lozenges. ^Reported from the Rio Pecos region. 10. The Prairie Rattlesnake: a yellowish-brown snake marked with a series of dark subquadrate blotches, having their cornersrounded and anterior and posterior sides frequently concave.^Rep
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