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On 6/20/2011 8:33 AM, Randy Lauff wrote:
> John Gilhen, former curator of Herpetology at the NSMNH, has recently
> published an article in /The Canadian Field-Naturalist/ (Vol. 124 [2])
> describing reddish Maritime Garter Snakes, which makes this the fifth
> colour variant described for our subspecies of Garter. Appropriately, he
> got the cover shot for the issue!
* and if you'd like to admire this colour variant in the flesh, they've
got a few captive at the NSMNH.
The colour is a brick-red overlaid on the specklely Maritime colour
pattern, not the brilliant bright-red sides of the Prairie race, or the
orange-red anterior overlay of the reddish northern Ontario Snakes.
fred.
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