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Identifier: scienceguide1630amer (find matches)
Title: Guide leaflet
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: American Museum of Natural History Natural history
Publisher: New York : The Museum
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: IMLS / LSTA / METRO

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wingRibbon to the similarity of markings. The body color is darkSnake. brown or black, with a bright and very clearly-definedstripe of yellow down the back and a similar stripe on each side.The body is very slender and the scales are distinctly keeled.When the skin is distended the sides of the body show small,white spots. The chief differences between this species and the Garter REPTILES OF THE VICINITY OF NEW YORK CITY 107 Snake are the following: 1. The stripes on the sides are situatedon the third and fourth rows of scales from the plates of thecrawling surface; with the Garter Snake the lateral stripe is situated on the second anil third rows of scales. 2. The under-side is immaculate, while the abdomen nl the Garter Snake showsa row of small black spots on each side. 3. The Ril >1 n m Snake is,in proportion, considerably more slender than the other species.The active little Ribbon Snake frequents damp meadows andwoods. It seldom exceeds three feet in length. Its food consists
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FIQ. 13. GARTER SNAKE of small fishes, tadpoles and frogs. The species is viviparous,but the number of young is small, seldom amounting to a dozen. Range: Southeastern Canada and the United States east ofthe Rocky Mountains. Local distribution: General, but not common. The Garter Snake, Thatnnophis sirialis (Fig. (3), is the mostcommon of our local serpents. The general color above is dark-brown or black, with three yellowish stripes running Garterlengthwise; beneath, the color is greenish yellow. Snake.The skin along the sides when distended shows numerous white io8 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL or greenish spots. The scales are strongly keeled. The speciesvaries in color; specimens are occasionally found upon whichthe stripe on the back is indistinct or entirely wanting; otherspresent a spotted appearance between the stripes. Abundant under various conditions of swamp, woods androcky localities, the Garter Snake will continue to exist withinour local borders long after many of the oth

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no.16-30
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  • bookid:scienceguide1630amer
  • bookyear:1901
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • booksubject:American_Museum_of_Natural_History
  • booksubject:Natural_history
  • bookpublisher:New_York___The_Museum
  • bookcontributor:American_Museum_of_Natural_History_Library
  • booksponsor:IMLS___LSTA___METRO
  • bookleafnumber:138
  • bookcollection:americanmuseumnaturalhistory
  • bookcollection:biodiversity
  • bookcollection:americana
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