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THE BATRACHIA AND REPTILIA OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYL- 

 VANIA WEST INDIAN EXPEDITION OF 1890 AND 1891. 



BY E. D. COPE. 



The species enumerated or described in the following pages were 

 collected in the course of a yachting expedition conducted by Pro- 

 fessor J. T. Rothrock, at that time Professor of Botany in the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, among the northern islands of the West 

 Indies. Collections were made at the following islands of the 

 Bahama group: New Providence, Eleuthera, Watlings Island, 

 Crooked Island, and Great luagua. They next touched at the east- 

 ern point of Jamaica, at Port Morant, and later at Port Luce at the 

 western extremity. The last collections were made at Gi'aud Cay- 

 man Island. The zoologist of the expedition was Mr. J. Percy 

 Moore, now Instructor in Comparative Anatomy and Zoology in the 

 University of Pennsylvania. To his care we are indebted for an 

 excellent series of the vertebrata of the islands visited. The 

 collection of Batrachia and Reptilia enumerated in the following 

 pages is one of the best ever made in the region. Collections from 

 Crooked Island and Inagua are especially welcome as but little was 

 previously known of their vertebrate fauna. Mr. Moore has fur- 

 nished me with notes of his observations, which are added in their 

 places, in quotation marks. 



New Providence. 



Trachyceplialus septentrionalis Tsch. 



" This large tree toad was met with abundantly everywhere in the 

 Bahamas and on Grand Cayman. About the sisal plantations on 

 New Providence great numbers could be taken, one or more being 

 concealed beneath the bases of the thick, fleshy leaves of almost 

 every plant. Their cry, when taken in the hand, is very startling, 

 having much of the force, quality, and pitch of the cry of a young 

 infant. They are said to spawn in the wells." 



Anolis principalis Linn. 

 Anolis sagrae D. & B. 



" This is one of the most widely distributed and abundant of 



