The reptile book; a comprehensive popularised work on the structure and habits of the turtles, tortoises, crocodilians, lizards and snakes which inhabit the United States and northern Mexico . > 12 HEADS K M1M I I I.\\K«irs SKRPKNTS I Pacific Brown Snake. Cnnhn mitii. * -™(1 YeHw-lii^. Snake, Rh,«li,,,-a flavilata. 4 and s Rfx-k Snake uc/. ij Rainbow Snake. Akastnr ii Red-bellied Snake, Farancia abacura. Scarlet Snake-. (<•mo/ Snake, KhinochilusUconiei. The King Snakes • typical form, the trend of variation with the succeedi
The reptile book; a comprehensive popularised work on the structure and habits of the turtles, tortoises, crocodilians, lizards and snakes which inhabit the United States and northern Mexico . > 12 HEADS K M1M I I I.\\K«irs SKRPKNTS I Pacific Brown Snake. Cnnhn mitii. * -™(1 YeHw-lii^. Snake, Rh,«li,,,-a flavilata. 4 and s Rfx-k Snake uc/. ij Rainbow Snake. Akastnr ii Red-bellied Snake, Farancia abacura. Scarlet Snake-. (<•mo/ Snake, KhinochilusUconiei. The King Snakes • typical form, the trend of variation with the succeeding formsis quite in the opposite direction—that is, the red areas are in-clined to widen and their black borders to extend around thebody as rings, producing much the same effect as the patternof the venomous coral snakes (Elaps}, hence these reptiles areamong those serpents that mimic the poisonous colubrinesnakes. The status of the present variety is somewhat doubtful. Itis the Western representative of the ancestral form, and extendswell within the Western range of the latter. Some specimensare symmetrically ringed with the black; others h
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