. The American natural history; a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. Natural history. THE BLACK SNAKE 89 than itself. Its favorite food consists of small rodents, young birds, eggs and frogs, but it does not eat fish. It is a great destroyer of mice and moles, and deserves well of the farmer on that account. The young differ in color from adult specimens, being slaty gray, with chestnut-brown saddles on the back. In the. WESTERN COACH-WHIP SNAKE, OR RED RACER. third year these colors fade, and the snake assumes its adult color. Speaking generally, the black
. The American natural history; a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. Natural history. THE BLACK SNAKE 89 than itself. Its favorite food consists of small rodents, young birds, eggs and frogs, but it does not eat fish. It is a great destroyer of mice and moles, and deserves well of the farmer on that account. The young differ in color from adult specimens, being slaty gray, with chestnut-brown saddles on the back. In the. WESTERN COACH-WHIP SNAKE, OR RED RACER. third year these colors fade, and the snake assumes its adult color. Speaking generally, the black form of this species occurs nearly everywhere throughout the United States east of the Mississippi into New England. What is called the intermediate color is too widely scattered to be defined, while the green-and-yelloiv form is found from Nebraska and Louisi- ana westward to the Pacific coast, and from Puget Sound to San 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 Hornaday, William Temple, 1854-1937. New York, C. Scribner's Sons
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