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carry off small or very young chickens. Like most all snakes 
in this region they are locally known as the “pilot.” They may be 
probably this subspecies. Mr. J. E. Richardson reports it from 
Moorestown. 
Heterodon platyrinos (Latreille). 
Hog Nose Snake. 
Color when fresh, back above deep brown or umber with an 
almost imperceptible tinge of dull olivaceous. On each side of 
back, whole length of body, this color becomes a paler tint with a 
more olivaceous tinge, and by time middle of side or gastrosteges 
are reached it has a grayish tinge. Lower surface of body then 
a dull livid brownish-white. Head dull brown above, finely and 
inconspicuously specked with darker, and this color extending 
down to upper edge of upper labials. Lower surface of rostral 
pale like lower labials, or creamy-white, and upper surface brown- 
ish of general color of head above. Between eyes anteriorly a 
narrow deeper brown band, margined in front and behind with 
dusky. Behind eyes, including parietals and posterior end of 
front plates, a larger deeper brown area, which gives off a rami- 
fication behind on each side extending obliquely back, and all this 
distinctly with dusky. Medianly on occiput though not joined 
to last mentioned figure a median occiptal bar longitudinally of 
same colors, and together with afore-mentioned ramifications re- 
solving into blackish of nape. In sutures at junction of frontal 
and parietal plates a small rounded pale brown spot of general 
color of head above, and with somewhat dusky margin. Pos- 
teriorly from eye below and sloping down to last upper labial, a 
deep brown bar margined dusky, and of about same width as those 
above. Down middle of back-are 41 more or less regular ochra- 
ceous-brown oblique cross-bars, each one margined narrowly 
with a slightly paler tint inside and intervening deep brown 
blotches fusing into a dusky margin, so that they are very sharply 
defined. On tail they become more or less regularly transverse 
Along each side of trunk, about three scales above gastrosteges, 
ochraceous transverse oblique bars of back. 
