Vol. XXI, pp. 53-62 February 29, 1908 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



A PRELIMINARY ANNOTATED LIST OF THE BATRA- 



CHIA OF TEXAS. 



BY JOHN K. STRECKER, Jr. 



Baylor University, Waco, Texas. 



The writer has been actively engaged for a number of years in 

 working out the distribution of the Reptilia and Batrachia in 

 Texas, with a view of publishing a cheek-list of the species in- 

 habiting the State. This paper presents a list of the batrachians 

 that have been recorded from within the State limits, and is now 

 published in the hope that others may be able to supply records 

 for any species that may be here omitted. Several of, the sala- 

 manders inhabiting southern Louisiana undoubtedly occur in the 

 eastern part of Texas, but to judge from the published records, 

 very little work has been done in that section of the State. 

 Several unrecorded species may also enter the northeastern sec- 

 tion from Arkansas. I have personally collected material in the 

 central, southern and western portions of the State, in the fol- 

 lowing counties: McLennan, Falls and Burnet (central), Refugio 

 and Bee (southern) and Midland, Jeff Davis and Brewster 

 (western). I have collected a few species in other counties, but 

 those above mentioned are the only ones in which I have made 

 extended research . 



Hon. J. D. Mitchell has furnished me with specimens and 

 notes from Victoria County. Mr. Julias Hurter of the St. Louis 

 Academy of Science has kindly written me out a list of the 

 batrachians collected by him on his several trips into the State. 

 Messrs. C. H. T. Townsend and Charles M. Barber have fur- 

 nished me with material from El Paso. 



The principal works I have referred to for localities are as 

 follows : 



S. F. Baird: " Reptilia (and Batrachia) of the Mexican bound- 

 ary survey " (1). 



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