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 . WHERE THE WATER SNAKES BASK THE REPTILE BOOK PLATE LXXX KIRTLANDS WATER SNAKE, Clonophis kirllandiAppears to be a degenerate off-shoot of the water snakes. Burrows in swampy places. >IKIIl.|t SUAM1 SNAKK, Trufid,,,Ionium lin,;ilnmBui rows in moist places. The markings are strikingly like those of the striped snakes—Eutania The Water Snakes tail. The scales are heavily keeled, and the upper surface isd
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 . WHERE THE WATER SNAKES BASK THE REPTILE BOOK PLATE LXXX KIRTLANDS WATER SNAKE, Clonophis kirllandiAppears to be a degenerate off-shoot of the water snakes. Burrows in swampy places. >IKIIl.|t SUAM1 SNAKK, Trufid,,,Ionium lin,;ilnmBui rows in moist places. The markings are strikingly like those of the striped snakes—Eutania The Water Snakes tail. The scales are heavily keeled, and the upper surface isdull and rusty. The head is very long and narrow beneath the plated por-tion which only forms about a half its length; behind the platesit widens abruptly, causing it to be very distinct from the eyes are small and bulging, and situated forward, towardthe snout, as well as rather high, which characteristic causesthis serpent to resemble the species of East Indian river snakesof the genera Homalopsis and Cerberus. In a lesser degree,the same characters are evinced by the two preceding species,demonstrating a close relationship. Colouration.—Rusty brown, with a series of black or darkbrown blotches on the back, square in shape; in alternationwith them on the sides is a similar series (about four scales wideand six scales high). The blotches of the back a
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