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 . keeping them in an ordinary room tempera-ture. As a captive the Fox Snake is hardy and subsists indefinitelyupon a diet of mice and sparrows. EMORYS COLUBER Coluber emoryi, (B. & G.) Smallest of the North American Colubers and the mostslender. So fine is the carination of the scales that they appearperfectly smooth unless closely examined; only a few rows onthe back are keeled. Colouration.—Ashy-gray, wi
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 . keeping them in an ordinary room tempera-ture. As a captive the Fox Snake is hardy and subsists indefinitelyupon a diet of mice and sparrows. EMORYS COLUBER Coluber emoryi, (B. & G.) Smallest of the North American Colubers and the mostslender. So fine is the carination of the scales that they appearperfectly smooth unless closely examined; only a few rows onthe back are keeled. Colouration.—Ashy-gray, with a series of rich brown orolive-brown blotches on the back, separated by intervals of oneor two scales. These blotches are narrowly margined with is a smaller series of alternating blotches on the side andbeneath this a yet smaller scries. The abdomen is yellowish-white, with dull gray blotches. From behind ibe eye there is a dark band extending past tbeangle of tbe mouth to the neck. Immediately in front of tbe eyesis a dark bar extending across the head. There are two elongatedblotches from the back portion of tbe bead to the neck. 298 THE REPTILE BOOK PLATE XCIII. PILOT BLACK SNAKE, Coluber obsoletusSometimes confused with the common blacksnake, but may be told by its keeled scales
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