. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders . ground, and associated withStoreria dekayi. Maine to Florida and Texas. Kirtlands snake {Clonophis Jcirtlandi; Trojjido-clonium hirtlandi of other authors). Length, six-teen inches; a beauty ; light, ruddy brown above,with three alternating series of roundblack spots, the central ones of which areindistinct and the smallest; reddish orperhaps yellowish beneath, with a rowof small black spots on either side; nine-teen dorsal rows; body stout. It willflatten its body and remain motionless toescape detection. A West
. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders . ground, and associated withStoreria dekayi. Maine to Florida and Texas. Kirtlands snake {Clonophis Jcirtlandi; Trojjido-clonium hirtlandi of other authors). Length, six-teen inches; a beauty ; light, ruddy brown above,with three alternating series of roundblack spots, the central ones of which areindistinct and the smallest; reddish orperhaps yellowish beneath, with a rowof small black spots on either side; nine-teen dorsal rows; body stout. It willflatten its body and remain motionless toescape detection. A Western to Illinois. The water snake or water adder(Natrwc fasciata sipedon ; Nerodiasipedon of other authors). Length,forty eight inches ; dull bronzebrown above, redder on thesides ; transverse light irregu-lar bands margined with black ; yellowish to reddish beneath ; Water snake, 48 inches. twenty-three dorsal rows ; head narrow and long; strongly carinated scales. Thissnake frequents marshes, overflowed meadows, andthe shores of streams and ponds, climbs among the. 78 FAMILIAR LIFE IN FIELD AND FOREST. bushes, coils there, and slips into the water whenalarmed ; it is a good swimmer, and a great fighterwhen enraged, but it is perfectly harmless. It isthe cast skin of this reptile which that interestingwoodland bird, the crested flycatcher (Myiarchuscrinitus), is so fond of as a lining for her nest.*The food of the water adder isfrogs, small fish, salamanders, from Massachusetts to Wis-consin and Georgia. Inthe South it is calledthe water species of watersnake, sometimes called thequeen snake (JVatrix lebe-ris ; Begina leberis of otherauthors), length, twenty-three inches, also commonin the East, is differently marked ; the color aboveis chestnut- or chocolate-brown, with a lateral yel-low band and three narrow black dorsal stripes; yel-lowish beneath; nineteen dorsal rows; dorsal scalescarinated. Frequents the banks of streams, and shal-lo
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