THE REPTILE BOOK 



PLATF. LXXIV 



nl'KEN' SXAK.E, Tropidonoliu M>.-m. Young 



Young examples of this Eastern snake have vivid yellow bands on the sides which cause them 



to look like the striped snakes 



QUEEN SNAKE, Tropidonotus lebcris. Adult 

 XVith maturity the upper surface is dull, uniform brown. Thr kind:-- on the sides are quite obscure 



GRAHAM'S WATER SVAKE. TrnfiMnnnttis graliami 



One of the longitudinally banded w.itrr snakes. Thr wide, p.ile band on the sideischnracteriftlo 



Found in the Mississippi valley 



