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Title: The reptiles of western North America, an account of the species known to inhabit California and Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, British Columbia, Sonora and Lower California
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Van Denburgh, John, 1872-1924
Subjects: Reptiles Lizards Serpents Turtles
Publisher: San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ers or robbedby some earlier comer. While I was watching a man spade up a small plot ofground, he killed two gophers (Thomomys) and threwthem a few feet away. A few minutes later a snake of thisspecies appeared, went directly to the spot where the gopherslay side by side, and swallowed first the adult and then thehalf grown one. It took no notice of our presence, andafter completing its hearty meal disappeared in the direc-tion whence it had come. Dr. Merrlam notes (N. Amer. Fauna No. 7) that severalwere secured in dense thickets of A triplex torreyi at Overton,Nevada. About dark they began to emerge from these re-treats, making a great noise in crawling over the dry leaves,and were soon found in the open. A specimen preserved in the collection of the Universityof California, had partially swallowed a rattlesnake abouttwo feet long. Plate 82 shows a Boyles Milk Snake eatinga Coast Gopher Snake which it had just killed. Oc. Faim rs, Cai,. Acad. Sci., Viu.. X (\an Di:niiurc.h) Pi.ATE 82
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2.5 »:c V- l> si §-==5: -<^ -t ■ c c 34. LAMPROPELTIS 757 169. Lampropeltis getulus yumensis BlanchardDesert Milk. Snake Ophibolus boylii Baird, U. S. Mex. Bound. Surv., Vol. II, 1859, p. 20. Lampropeltis boylii conjtincta Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1861,p. 301 (part). Coronella getulus splendida Jan, Iconog. Gener. Ophid., livr. ii, 1865,pi. 6, fig. I. Ophibolus getulus boylii Yarrow, Surv. W. looth Merid., Vol. V, 1875,p. 538 (part); Yarrow, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 24, l88j,p. 92 (part); Cope, Report U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1898, 1900, p. 919(part); Brown, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1901, p. 78 (part). Lampropeltis conjuncta Van Denburgh, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Set. 4,Vol. 3, 1912, p. 154; Grinnell & Camp, Univ. Cal. Pubis. Zool.,Vol. 17, No. 10, 1917, p. 187; Hall & Grinnell, Proc. Cal. Acad.Sci., Ser. 4, Vol. 9, No. 2, 1919, p. 48. Lampropeltis boylii conjuncta Stejneger & Barbour, Check List N.Amer. Amph. Rept., 1917, p. 87 (part). Lampropeltis ge

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