[anji1971]

Well, we don't have red-sided garters here, so it's not that.
But we do have Butlers, and unfortunately they're protected, so I would rather it not be that!
These pictures don't really show it as clearly as I'd like, but I'll have to let him settle in and get him out in the sunlight to get some better ones.
His colouring is black with gold-ish stripes, and they blend into a beautiful bronze-brown shading on the sides, with a creamy belly.
I thought he might be a ribbon just because his stripes seem closer together and more sharply defined than all the other garters around here. There were only two that I saw today that looked like this one, and the others were definitely Easterns.