Image: The American Museum journal (c1900-(1918)) (18159607225)

Description: 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 View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: io6 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL When repeatedly annoyed, this snake will feign death and may then be roughly handled without its displaying signs of life. Its food consists principally of toads. The species is oviparous, depositing about two dozen eggs. A large specimen will measure three feet in length and one and a half inches in diameter. Range: The United States east of the Rocky Mountains. Local distribution: Found in nearly all the sandy localities adjacent to New York City. Common on Long Island and the Bayonne peninsula. New Jersey. Text Appearing After Image: y^ •^T" V-'. FIQ. 12. RIBBON SNAKE The Ribbon Snake, Thamnopkis saurita (Fig. 12), is a species which might be easily confounded with the Garter Snake, owing Ribbon to the similarity of markings. The body color is dark Snake. brown or black, with a bright and very clearly-defined stripe of yellow down the back and a similar stripe on each side. The body is very slender and the scales are distinctlv keeled. When the .skin is distended the sides of the body show small, white spots. The chief differences between this species and the Garter Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: The American Museum journal (c1900-(1918)) (18159607225)
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