80 Bulletin Wisconsin Natural History Society. [Vol. 9, Nos. 1-2. 



i. One specimen (No. 1103) from the mouth of the Yellow 

 river in Burnett Co., July 28th, 1909. 



2. One specimen (No. 1104) from the same locality, July 

 30th, 1909. 



3. One specimen (No. 1105) from the same locality, Aug- 

 ust 1 st, 1909. 



4. One specimen (No. 1107) from Randall, Burnett Co., 

 August 5th, 1909. 



5. One specimen (No. 1108) from the same locality, August 

 6th, 1909. 



6. One specimen (No. 1109) from Never's Dam, Polk Co., 

 August 9th, 1909. 



On the same occasion a specimen (No. 1106) was obtained 

 opposite Randall in Chisago Co., Minn., (near Rush City 

 Bridge). 



All of these were met with in dry soil, either sand or gravel. 

 This species is apparently not uncommon in Burnett Co. in the 

 sandy areas along the St. Croix river, that are so characteristic of 

 that region, the so-called "Pine Barrens." 



Bumeces quinquelineatus (Linn.). Blue-tailed skink. Higley 

 (Loc. cit. p. 160) reported it from Walworth Co., and expressed 

 the belief that it would be met with in all the southern counties. 

 According to this author "it may be found to the best advantage 

 in May, in dampish unfrequented woods under bark." 



In Cope's list of specimens in the U. S. Nat. Mus. (Loc. cit. 

 p. 639) we find one, for which the locality Aux Plains, Wis., is 

 given. No such locality can be made out on any of the maps at 

 our disposal, and possibly the Eau Pleine river in Marathon 

 county, a tributary of the Wisconsin river is meant. 



This is probably the lizard usually met with in the eastern and 

 central states. Garman 5 , writing in 1892, considers it common in 

 the southern counties of Illinois, rare in other parts of that state, 

 and extinct in northern Illinois. 



There are four specimens in the collection of the Public Museum 

 of Milwaukee from the following localities : two specimens from 

 New Coeln, Milwaukee Co. (Nos. 488 and 491), donated by the 

 Wisconsin Natural History Society (no date given, but to my 



5. H. Garman. A Synopsis of the reptiles and amphibians of Illi- 

 nois. Bull. 111. State Lab., Vol. Ill, Article XIII, 1892. 



