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YELLOW CHICKEN SXAKE FOUR-BANDED COLUBER Adult 



Coluber obsolelus quadrivillatus 



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 anj mice 



EGGS OF FOTTR.RAVDED COLUBER, 



Ciihibrr ah.'ul.liis qutidrh-ittalus 



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

 increase in size 



YOUN OF THE FOUR- 



I! \\H1 1) Col. I'BER 

 The strongly l>l"trhed young slum- the 

 relationship to tin- 1'u-t Hl.nksnake 



