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 . YOUNG OF THE COMMON RACER, Zamcnis constrictor As is characteristic with all the species of the genus, the young of the Hlacksnake is strongly blotched or banded. fades into the uniform black of the adult during the second year The pattern. \CKS\.\KK; RACER, Zamenis constrictor. Adult—Northern phase A familiar serpent of the eastern United Stulcs. It is not a constrii tor. despite the scientific name
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 . YOUNG OF THE COMMON RACER, Zamcnis constrictor As is characteristic with all the species of the genus, the young of the Hlacksnake is strongly blotched or banded. fades into the uniform black of the adult during the second year The pattern. \CKS\.\KK; RACER, Zamenis constrictor. Adult—Northern phase A familiar serpent of the eastern United Stulcs. It is not a constrii tor. despite the scientific name. (Irows to a length of seven feetAs it feeds largely U]X>n small rodents it should In- prolci ted by the agriculturist The Racers Total Length 7 ft. i in. Length of Tail i 8£ in. Greatest Diameter* i J inches. WidthofHead i Length of Head. ... 2j Distribution.—The range of the typical form—the Coach-whip Snake—is from South Carolina (inclusive) southwardthroughout Florida and westward to Arizona; northern Mexico. In the East the species is not so generally abundant as theblacksnake. During a two weeks collecting trip in the South,the writer captured seventy blacksnakes, but during the entireperiod observed but five specimens of the Coachwhip species appears to be more abundant in Texas than in thesoutheastern United States. Many specimens have been re-ceived from the vicinity of Brownsville and from
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