. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders. Zoology. 70 FAMILIAR LIFE IN FIELD AND FOBEST. snakes. Common in the Soutli, and occasionally found on Long Island, JST. Y.; southern New York to Florida and Louisiana. The king snake {Ophiholus getulus sayi). Length, forty-eight inches; black above, with a yellow spot on each scale ; the effect of these spots is to form sixty transverse lines across the back; yellowish-white be- neath, 'with black blotches. West of the Alleghanies, north to Illinois and Wisconsin (Hoy).. Milk snake, spotted adder, 48 inches. The
. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders. Zoology. 70 FAMILIAR LIFE IN FIELD AND FOBEST. snakes. Common in the Soutli, and occasionally found on Long Island, JST. Y.; southern New York to Florida and Louisiana. The king snake {Ophiholus getulus sayi). Length, forty-eight inches; black above, with a yellow spot on each scale ; the effect of these spots is to form sixty transverse lines across the back; yellowish-white be- neath, 'with black blotches. West of the Alleghanies, north to Illinois and Wisconsin (Hoy).. Milk snake, spotted adder, 48 inches. The spotted adder, milk, or house snake {Ophi- hoh/s dollatus triangulus).* Length, forty-eight inches; handsome; pale brown or ash-gray above, with about fifty dorsal, transverse, triangular choco- late blotches edged with black; other lateral ones; yellowish-white beneath, checkered with square black blotches; small eye; twenty-one dorsal rows. It is said to be fond of milk, and to frequent the floors of dairies and cellars of houses. I killed one at least thirty-eight inches long last summer in a vegetable * He has even more names—viz., chicken snake, thunder and lightning snake, checkered adder, 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 Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler), 1854-1938; Underwood, William Lyman, 1864-1929, phot. New York, D. Appleton and Company
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