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Sixteen specimens were collected by Mr. Fuchs on South 

 Farallon Island, February 8, 1899, and four by Mr. L. M. 

 Loomis, July 9, 1896. They were found under piles of loose 

 stone. 



The spots on the type specimen are larger and somewhat 

 more numerous than on any of the others. 



San Miguel Island. 



I know of no records of reptiles or amphibians from San 

 Miguel Island. Two species of lizards and a Batrachoseps 

 were secured on this island by Mr. R. H. Beck while col- 

 lecting for the California Academy of Sciences. 



1. Batrachoseps pacificus Cope. 



Plate III. 



Hemidactylium pacificum Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1865, p. 195. 

 Batrachoseps pacificus Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1869, pp. 97, 98; 



Yarrow, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. no. 24, 1882, p. 153 [part?]; 



BouLENGER, Cat. Batrach. Grad. 1882, p. 59; Cope, Bull. U. S. 



Nat. Mus. no. 34, 1889, p. 129 [part?]. 



Batrachoseps pacificus was described by Professor Cope, 

 in 1865, from a specimen said to have been collected at 

 Santa Barbara, California. Two specimens from San 

 Francisco were afterward referred to this species. All of 

 the specimens I have examined from both these localities are 

 of the common form known as B. attoiiiatus, I was, there- 

 fore, inclined to doubt the existence of B, pacificus as a 

 distinct species until I examined eight specimens collected 

 by Dr. Eisen on Santa Rosa Island in 1897. In March, 

 1903, Mr. R. H. Beck secured on San Miguel a large series 

 of a Batrachoseps which seems to differ in no respect from 

 that found on Santa Rosa Island, but which is very distinct 

 from the species of the mainland. 



These island salamanders agree in all important points 

 with the original description of B. pacificus, but since the 

 published descriptions of this species are not very complete, 

 I sent a specimen from San Miguel Island to my friend 

 Dr. Stejneger with a request that he compare it directly with 



