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The milk snake is useful about the farm as a 
field mouse destroyer, but the slanders against 
it as a ‘milk thief’ are not founded on facts. I 
have secured it miles from any dairy, feeding 
on frogs.” 
THE FOX SNAKE. 
“ The fox snake—Coluber- vulpinus—is a fine 
representative of our common snakes, This 
snake grows to abcut five feet in length and is 
graceful in form. It is of a yellowish brown 
color, with a series of square chocolate brown 
blotches along the back and a row of smaller 
spots of the same color along the sides. Be- 
neath it is yellowish white with square, black 
spots. The favorite resorts of the fox snake 
are the hilly wooded districts of the northeast- 
ern part of our country. A friend sent to me a 
fine specimen from the hilly district of Penn- 
sylvania which gave birth to fifteen little 
ones ; these were miniatures of their parent. 
The fox snake is of a docile disposition and 
thus makes a pleasant pet.” 
THE SUMMER GREEN SNAKE. 
“The summer green snake—Cyclophis «s- 
tivus—is an exquisite little creature. This spe- 
cies is also indigenous to the mountain dis- 
tricts. It has a small, conical head, very deli- 
eate neck and slight graceful body. It grows 
