Proceedings of 

 the United States 

 National Museum 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION • WASHINGTON, D.C. 



Volume 122 1967 Number 3595 



Ecology and Social Organization 



In the Iguanid Lizard 



Anolis lineatopus 



By A. Stanley Rand * 



Introduction 



This paper reports the findings of a fO-montli (August 1961 to 

 June 1962) field study of the ecology and behavior, particularly the 

 social behavior, of Anolis lineatopus, in edificarian situations, in 

 the vicinity of Kingston, Jamaica. 



The geographical variation of this common Jamaican lizard has 

 been discussed by Underwood and Williams (1959) and by Grant 

 (1940) but, beyond brief notes in these papers and in Barbour (1910), 

 its natural history has never been described. 



There have been a number of detailed studies on free-living lizards, 

 but most of them have dealt with temperate zone species in tem- 

 perate environments. Few investigators have had the opportunity 

 to conduct intensive and extensive studies on lizards in the tropics. 

 The few exceptions include Evans (1951), Harris (1964), and Hirth 

 , (1963 a and b). No extended field study with an emphasis similar 

 1 to this one has been published on any tropical Anolis though the 

 shorter papers of Evans (1938a) and Oliver (1948) report relevant 



• Zoologist, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Box 2072, Balboa, Pan- 

 ama Canal Zone. 



