Little Brown Skink vs. Broad-headed Skink

The Little Brown Skink is small and golden-bronze with a single dark stripe along each side. A Broad-headed Skink is the biggest skink in Indiana: young are black with five pale stripes and a blue tail, and old males are plain brown with a broad orange-red head. They overlap in the woods of southern Indiana.

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