. The geography of Texas, physical and political. Fig. 50. Harlequin or CoralSnake From Baird head dark and bronzeThe inverted Y-shaped iLoc. cit., p. 912. 2 Cope. Loc. cit., pp. 1022-1023. 3 The list here given is, with a single omission, that compiled byMr. J. D. Mitchell of Victoria, Texas. See The Poisonous Snakes ofTexas, with Notes on their Habits. Transactions of the Texas Academyof Science, Vol. V., pp. 21 et seq. Austin, 1903. 7(3 THE GEOGRAPHY OF TEXAS darker blotches on the sides furnish further means for identi-fication. It frequents the timber bordering rivers and Coit
. The geography of Texas, physical and political. Fig. 50. Harlequin or CoralSnake From Baird head dark and bronzeThe inverted Y-shaped iLoc. cit., p. 912. 2 Cope. Loc. cit., pp. 1022-1023. 3 The list here given is, with a single omission, that compiled byMr. J. D. Mitchell of Victoria, Texas. See The Poisonous Snakes ofTexas, with Notes on their Habits. Transactions of the Texas Academyof Science, Vol. V., pp. 21 et seq. Austin, 1903. 7(3 THE GEOGRAPHY OF TEXAS darker blotches on the sides furnish further means for identi-fication. It frequents the timber bordering rivers and Coitonmouth, Water Moccasin, or Stump-Tail Moccasin: youngindividuals of a somewhat dull chestnut brown above, markedby twenty or thirty purj)lish-black transverse zigzag bands,two of which, on the same side, may unite above inclosing aspace darker than the ground color. The underside of the bodyis black, with yellowish-white blotches. Upper side of the. Fig. 51. Cottoxmofth orWater Moccasix From Baird Fio. 52, Edwards MassasaugaFrom Baird head purplish black. In old individuals the color is faded and the general appearance is dark, rough, and rusty. It ranges all over the state where there is sufficient moisture. 4. Edwards Massasauga: yellowish brown; -about forty-two dorsal brown and irregular blotches, margined with deep black andencircled with a yellow fillet . .; sides marked with smallchestnut-brown blotches arranged in two series. Said to rangethroughout Texas, but apparently is not very common. 5. The Ground Rattlesnake: ground color dark grayish ash, minutely mottled. A series of thirty-eight to forty-five subcircular FAUNA 77 dorsal blotches extending from head to 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 colo
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