

Fig. 20. Storer's Snake I Red-Bellied Snake), Storeria occipito-maculata. Indicating: 

 the dimensions of an adult specimen from Sullivan County, New York. The food of 

 the three species of little hrovvn snakes (including the species shown below) consists 

 lai-gely of earthworms, although the young are so diminutive that they search for 



the soft-bodied larvae of small insects. 



Fig. 21. (Lower) Smooth Brown Snake, Virginia valeriae valeriae. Ranges only 



into the extreme southerly area of the northeastern States. Immediately distinguished 



from the other brown snakes by its smooth scales. 



