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Transcriber's Notes

Emphasis denoted as Italics.

and represents the male and female symbols respectively.

Whole and fractional parts of numbers are represented as 41-3/4.

=================================================== University of Kansas Publications

Museum of Natural History ---------------- Volume 15, No. 8, pp. 351-468, pls. 19-22, 20 figs. ----------------- December 30, 1963 ----------------

Natural History of the Racer

Coluber constrictor

HENRY S. FITCH

University of Kansas Lawrence 1963

University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History

Editors: E. Raymond Hall, Chairman, Henry S. Fitch, Theodore H. Eaton, Jr.

Volume 15, No. 8, pp. 351-468, pls. 19-22, 20 figs. Published December 30, 1963

University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas

PRINTED BY JEAN M. NEIBARGER, STATE PRINTER TOPEKA, KANSAS 1963

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Natural History of the Racer Coluber constrictor

HENRY S. FITCH

CONTENTS

PAGE

Introduction 355

Acknowledgments 357

Methods and Materials 358

Description 362 Color pattern 362 Bodily proportions 365 Lepidosis 367 Dentition 369 Hemipenis 369

Relationships 370

Range 371

Geographic Variation 373

Habitat 375