. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders . pery cast to the head;^-shaped brown marks on sides; yellowish beneath;fangs like the rattlesnakes. An extremely rare butdangerous reptile, with a pointed, horny tail but withno warning rattle. The familiar members of the non-poisonous familyColubridce are as follows: The ground snake (Oarphophiops amoenus).Length, twelve inches; opalescent color; chestnutbrown above, salmon beneath ; head very small, notwider than the neck; thirteen dorsal rows;f found * In the American Naturalist for March, 1893, somebodygives
. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders . pery cast to the head;^-shaped brown marks on sides; yellowish beneath;fangs like the rattlesnakes. An extremely rare butdangerous reptile, with a pointed, horny tail but withno warning rattle. The familiar members of the non-poisonous familyColubridce are as follows: The ground snake (Oarphophiops amoenus).Length, twelve inches; opalescent color; chestnutbrown above, salmon beneath ; head very small, notwider than the neck; thirteen dorsal rows;f found * In the American Naturalist for March, 1893, somebodygives the vibrations of the rattle a tempo of one hundred andten per minute. This is a great error, which may be provedat once by setting the metronome at one hundred and twelve—adagio. f By this I mean that the scales on the back are arranged inthirteen rows. OUR ANCIENT ENEMY THE OPHIDIAN. 69 under dry logs and stones in the to Louisiana and worm snake * Massa- (Carph ophwpsLength, twelvelustrous purpleflesh color he-half and half ;than the neck ;. SOliri, Kan- Ground snake,12 inches. vermis).inches ;black above,neath ; colors abouthead very small, not widerthirteen dorsal rows. Mis-sas, and southern Illi-nois only. The chain snake (Ojjhiholns getulus getulus).Length, forty-eight inches; handsome and inoffen-sive ; black, crossed ^mm^ ^ ^y narrow,continuous yellow- ^fS^B^^S^^ white ringswhich bifurcate on miSezf ; Hi the flanks ; on the backare largeblack hexa-gons ; blotched with blackbeneath; head scarcely widerthan the neck. Cope says thatcertain tamed chain snakes be-longing once to his little daughter drank milk froma saucer. The chain snake is a great enemy to other
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