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  • body color clearly broken
  • snake without rattle
  • without light-colored longitudinal stripes
  • without light-colored ring around neck
  • usually longer than 15 inches, not colored as above
  • belly color other than red or red-orange
  • head about same width as neck
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Large blotches down middle of back brown or reddish brown, bordered in strongly contrasting black. reddish blotches <image courtesy of Ohio Department of Natural Resources>
Large blotches down middle of back very dark, nearly black, if bordered, not in strongly contrasting black. dark blotches <image courtesy of Ohio Department of Natural Resources>
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