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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo05amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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no THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL This snake is most frequently found hiding under flat stones, and in such places the reptile searches for its favorite food, which consists of earthworms. The Brown Snake is viviparous, producing from fifteen to eighteen young during August. During the first year the young snakes are very dark with a whitish ring around the neck. At this stage they resemble the young of the Ring-Necked Snake,
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FIG. 15. DEKAY'S, OR BROWN SNAKE but thev may be distinguished therefrom by their keeled scales. When adult, the average length of the Brown Snake is about fourteen inches. Range: Canada and the eastern United States from the Atlantic coast westward to Kansas and southward to Mexico. Local distribution: Common in rocky localities. The Storer's Snake, or Red-Bellied Snake, Storeria occipito- macidata (Fig. i6), closely resembles the Brown Snake, but may be distinguished therefrom by its bright vermilion Snake underside. Down the back of Storer's Snake there is usually a well-defined stripe of a lighter shade than the body color, which is brown or dark gray; occasionally specimens are slaty gray with a light stripe down the back bordered with rows of minute black spots. On such specimens the bright red of the underside is especially intense. It is a smaller species

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