THE REPTILE BOOK 



PLATE XCIV 



YELLOW CHICKEN SNAKE FOUR-BANDED COLUBER Adult 

 Coluber obsolelus qmidrii'iltatus 



This fine serpent of the Southeastern States sometimes enters poultry houses, where it eats the eggs and very young fowls 

 Most frequently, however, its presence in such places is prompted by a search for rats and mice 



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EGGS or FOUR-BANDED. COLUBER, 



i ','lnhrr i>h\nli-iii\ quadrivittoitu 



During their incubation in wood pulp or decomposing vegetation, the eggs steadily 



increase in size 



YOUN OF THE FOUR- 

 HAM )KD COLUBER 



The <tron(fly blotched young show the 

 n -Utionship to the Pilot Blacksnake 



