THE AMERICAN MIDLAND NATURALIST 



Rofkar of Port Clinton; B. J. Skinner of Westchester; E. A. Doolittle of Painesville; 

 Karl Maslowski, Woodrow Goodpaster and Wm. Gessing, all of Cincinnati. 



The writer is indebted to the Zoological Board of Management of the Toledo 

 Zoological Park and especially to Percy C. Jones, President, and Frank L. Skeldon, 

 Secretary, for their cooperation. He likewise is obligated to Leo Higgins, his assistant 

 while at Toledo, for much help. 



The Zoological Society of Philadelphia has extended much encouragement and 

 assistance and for financial help in borrowing specimens for examination, and for 

 permission to spend some little time on the completion of this report the writer wishes 

 to express his profound thanks. 



To many of his lay friends and acquaintances the author is at a loss properly to 

 convey his appreciation. Four persons in particular participated in far more field trips 

 than any others and without their financial assistance it would have been impossible 

 to carry on much of the field work. They are M. K. Murphy, Homer Percival, 

 David Delzell and Byron Gardner, Jr., all of Toledo. Many others helped with field 

 work, some to quite an extensive degree. Among these are included Charles L. Burris, 

 Louis W. Campbell, Robert Mattlin, Cecil Murphy, James Kitzmiller, Jr., James 

 Friauf, Robert Lampton, Russell Schunk, Richard Tallman, Bernard Campbell and 

 the late John Search, all members at one time or another of the Toledo Naturalists' 

 Association. 



Lawrence W. Hielt, Fred R. Flickinger and Mack Newkirk, all of Toledo, have 



aided materially in the preparation of photographs as well as by doing work in the field. 



Edward S. Thomas and Dr. Howard K. Gloyd, previously mentioned, have very 



kindly loaned several photographs. W. Stuart Cramer, of Reading, Pa., has pre- 

 pared the plates illustrating scale characters. 



E. L. Wickliff, Chief of the Bureau of Scientific Research, Conservation Division, 

 Ohio State Department of Agriculture, has been most cooperative at all times. Edith 

 N. Swanson and Mark Mooney, Jr., have aided materially with the clerical work 

 attendant to preparing the manuscript. 



Previous State Reports 



Three lists of Ohio reptiles have been pubhshed. The first of these, by 

 Kirtland (1838), records three hzards, nine turtles and fifteen snakes. Con- 

 sidering the early day at which he collected and the fact that most of his 

 field work appears to have been done in northeastern and southwestern Ohio, 

 his list of twenty-seven reptiles is remarkable. Smith (1882) prepared a 

 report on the reptiles and amphibians in which he gives three lizards, thirteen 

 turtles and twenty-four snakes as being native to Ohio. Since his work was 

 based chiefly upon the writings of other herpetologists and upon material sent 

 to him from Ohio its accuracy and completeness are much open to question. 

 Apparently he did little collecting in the state. 



The most complete report published to date is by Morse (1904). He did 

 considerable field work and a number of his specimens are still preserved in 

 the Ohio State Museum. His records include three lizards, eight turtles and 

 twenty-nine snakes. 



