Tire Rkptile Hook 



Plate XCIII 



PILOT BLACK SXAKE. Coluber ohsoletus 

 Sometimes confused with the common blacksnake, but may be told by its keeled scales 



BLOTCHED CHTCKKN' SNAKE. Coluber obsolttus confinis 

 Its occasional depredations among poiiUry are superficial as compared with its persistent search for rats and mice. 

 central and southeastern portion of the United States 



Found in the 



