THE REPTILE BOOK 



PLATE XCIV 



YELLOW CHICKEN SNAKE FOUR-BANDED COLUBER Adult 



Coluber obsoletus quadrivittatus 



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

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



EGGS OF FOUR-BANDED COLUBER, 



Coluber obsoletus quadrivittalus 



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

 increase in size 



YOUN OF THE FOUR- 

 BANDED COLUBER 

 The strongly blotched young show the 

 relationship to the Pilot Blacksnake 



