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YELLOW CHICKEN SXAKE FuUK-BANULD CuLUULR— AJull 



Coluber obsolelus qwidrh'iltahis 



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



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



EGOS OF FOrR-HAXDKD COLUBEi: 

 Coluber obsolctsis qutidrh-iltalus 



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



mcrease in size 



YOUX OF THE FOUR- 

 HAXDED COLUBER 

 The strongly blotched young show the 

 relationship to the Pilot Blacksnake 



