This snake looks similar to earth snakes (Virginia sp.) A large (up to 1,270 mm or 50" in total length excluding rattle), tan, olive, or gray-brown rattlesnake with a series of dark blotches running down the back. The name brown snake refers to two different genera of snakes, found on two different continents. Defensive Behavior: This pipe snake hides the head under loops of it’s body and flips it’s red tail end up in the air – flattening it – as if like a cobra. The blotches have dark edges and uniform brown, dark gray, or olive-brown centers. Reddish brown, orange brown to yellowish brown with dark edges to scales. It has smaller, smooth scales on its back, which is usually bright green or light green and may have a black net-like pattern. Moon or Orange-Naped Snake Furina ornata Total Length: Up to 65 cm Distinguishing features: Head and neck glossy dark brown to black, bisected by red to orange band across neck, darkens to absence with age. Its snout appears rounded when viewed from above. but those species lack spots on the back and head. They can be distinguished from redbellied snakes (Storeria occipitomaculata) by their lack of red underside and from the Florida brown snake (Storeria victa) by geographic range and lack of light neck band . Food: Brahminy blind snakes, insect larvae, small frogs and worms. Most specimens have a total length (including tail) up to 1.5 m (4.9 ft), with some large individuals reaching 2 m (6.6 ft). G. oxycephalum is a robust powerful snake, with wide smooth scales on its belly that are ideal for climbing trees and across branches. The snake is mostly nocturnal and is active at night. The eastern brown snake is of slender to average build with no demarcation between its head and neck. A gray-colored morph with a yellow head exists in Panay, in the Philippines. As they near the tail the blotches gradually morph into cross bands. A - It the dorsum (back) is gray to brown with a row of paired, small black to dark-brown spots, which may border a light-brown middorsal stripe and one or more of which may be connected with crossbars; patch of dark pigment on supralabials 3 and 4 then the snake is a Northern Brownsnake (Storeria dekayi dekayi). The maximum recorded size for the species is 2.4 m (7.9 ft).