. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 132 THE MILK SNAKE, OR HOUSE SNAKE. The Chicken Snake {Coluber quadrimttatus) derives its name from its habit of entering farms and houses and stealing chickens from the I'oost. As, however, it feeds largely on rats and mice, its services in this respect may in all probability counter- balance the loss caused by its thefts. Like the corn-Snake, it is soon tamed, and will become very fanuliar. In color it is a very delicate looking reptile, being of a soft bright golden-brown, and having
. Animate creation : popular edition of "Our living world" : a natural history. Zoology; Zoology. 132 THE MILK SNAKE, OR HOUSE SNAKE. The Chicken Snake {Coluber quadrimttatus) derives its name from its habit of entering farms and houses and stealing chickens from the I'oost. As, however, it feeds largely on rats and mice, its services in this respect may in all probability counter- balance the loss caused by its thefts. Like the corn-Snake, it is soon tamed, and will become very fanuliar. In color it is a very delicate looking reptile, being of a soft bright golden-brown, and having four narrow stripes upon a rich dark brown I'unning the whole length of the body. In length it is usually about four feet six inches, though a few specimens attain the length of six and even seven feet. This is also a Northern American ^^^-^^a^.:?:^ CHICKEN quadrlvMatus. Say's Snake is a most attractive creature, having a bluish-black body, with round milk- white spots, thickly bespattered over the entire upper surface. It measures from three to four feet in length. Its habitat is throughout the Gulf States. The Milk Snake, or House Snake {Ophibolus triangulus), is common in many parts of North America, and has derived its popular names from its habit of entering houses and its fondness for milk, which some persons fancy it obtains from the cows. Its general food consists of mice and insects, and, like the preceding species, it is ])roliably of some use to the farm where it takes up its residence, and wortiiy of the encouragement which it sometimes receives. In the general arrangement of the markings, it is not unlike the corn-Snake, with which it has often been confounded, especially after the fresh beauty of its colors has been dimmed by death, or extracted and changed by spirits. There are similar rows of ]iatches along the sides, but in this species the spots are much broader, often coalescing over the back and forming bands, and the general hue of
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