Brown Snake

Brown snake is the common name given to a number of very different species of snakes:

  • The genus Pseudonaja, Australian brown snakes
  • The genus Storeria, North American brown snakes
  • The species Elapognathus minor, the Australian short-nosed, or little brown, snake
  • The species Pseudechis australis, the Australian mulga, or king brown, snake

Famous quotes containing the words brown and/or snake:

    “Old man, it’s four flights up and for what?
    Your room is hardly any bigger than your bed.
    Puffing as you climb, you are a brown woodcut
    stooped over the thin rail and the wornout tread.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Edible. Good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.”
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