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with the eyes, ran along the side of the body and the tail, 

 which was azure blue beneath, while the undersurfaces of 

 the body were glaucous blue, suffused anteriorly with 

 cream color. The sides of the head were buff yellow. All 

 in all, it was one of the most beautiful and strikingly col- 

 ored reptiles which I have ever seen. 



I sent the specimen to Miss Cochran of the National 

 Museum in Washington, who was writing a herpetology 

 of the Island of Hispaniola, although I fairly itched to 

 describe it myself. I realized it was new the second I saw 

 it, as I have said before, and I asked her if she would name 

 it for my wife. She not only named this species Ameiva 

 rosamojidae, but without my knowing it she named the 

 Ameiva from La Gonave Island for me. 



The Haitian peasants are so poor that they will struggle 

 hard to catch lizards, snakes, frogs, and toads — which they 

 do not really like to do — if they can sell them for five 

 cents each, and I mean five cents of a Haitian gourde, 

 which is only worth fifteen cents to start with. V/e often 

 had as many as a hundred people collecting for us. In this 

 way, on the islands that were populated of course, it waa 

 possible to secure in a few days as much material as a single 

 person could have gotten during a long stay, so that while 

 we stopped at innumerable different localities during these 

 voyages on the Utoivana and never had very much time 

 at one place, all around Haiti and in the Bahamas we got 

 big collections. You can do this in Jamaica, but not in Cuba. 



We stopped on one occasion at Isle Tortue. I went 

 ashore in the morning and passed word around that we 

 would be back in the latter part of the afternoon prepared 

 to purchase what might be forthcoming, explaining what 



