. Annual report of the Regents. New York State Museum; Science. 386 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM a Occurs in swamps and low grounds in Orange and Dutchess. counties, but scarcer in the ; Eckel. 1901, p. 154 " Very common in Rockland ; Wallace. 1901 The milk snake (p. 374); the water snake (p. 377) and the blowing adder (p. 368) are frequently confounded with this species, though bearing only a very superficial resemblance to it. 22 Sistrurus catenatus catenatus (Rafinesque) Massasauga Gebhard. '53, p. 22. Crotalophorus tergeminus Jordan. Sistrurus catenatus Tail with a
. Annual report of the Regents. New York State Museum; Science. 386 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM a Occurs in swamps and low grounds in Orange and Dutchess. counties, but scarcer in the ; Eckel. 1901, p. 154 " Very common in Rockland ; Wallace. 1901 The milk snake (p. 374); the water snake (p. 377) and the blowing adder (p. 368) are frequently confounded with this species, though bearing only a very superficial resemblance to it. 22 Sistrurus catenatus catenatus (Rafinesque) Massasauga Gebhard. '53, p. 22. Crotalophorus tergeminus Jordan. Sistrurus catenatus Tail with a rattle. Head with nine symmetric plates in front ; covered with scales behind. Scales in 25 rows. Urosteges undivided,, except the last three to five, which are Fig. 23 Sistrurus catenatus catenatus Ground color above, brown; blotches deep brown to blackish, with yellowish white margin; color beneath, blackish brown, inter- mingled with yellowish. Length 24-30 inches. The rattles of this species are much smaller than those of a banded rattlesnake of equal length; and their sound is correspondingly feeble. Described by De Kay ('42, p. 57) as extralimital, this species was added to the 'New York faunal list by Gebhard ('53, p. 22), a specimen having been sent in by the Hon. Levi Fish, from the town of Byron, Genesee co. Gebhard states further that in this town " their habitat is a white cedar swamp, containing an area of about one thousand acres. During the summer season, they leave the swamp, and go into the adjoining fields of grain, where they remain until fall, when they return to the swamp and ; No later record exists of their occurrence in New York state; and. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original New York State Museum; University of the State of New York. Board of
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