NO. 3595 ANOLIS LINEATOPUS — RAND 35 



This line of poui trees was somewhat unusual in the small number 

 of subadults found, 7 males from 36 to 49 mm and 1 female of 29 mm. 

 The single small female was found on a tree with an adult female and 

 the smallest of the young males. The largest of the j^ouug males 

 was found on a tree wdth an adidt male of 62 mm and an adult female 

 of 44 mm. The remaining 5 young males, 40-46 nmi, were all on 

 trees that had no other lizards on them. 



The distribution of A. lineatopus at Barbican during September 

 through November sho^^'s a picture similar to that described above 

 but more complex. 



The distribution of the adult males is shown in figure 4. They 

 occupy areas that are nearly mutually exclusive though sometimes a 

 male was seen in the activity range of another. The activity ranges 

 of the males in part of this area are mapped in greater detail in figure 3. 

 i^gain there is little overlap even though in the area where the males 

 meet in the brush heap there are no physical barriers. In fact, all 3 

 of these males regidarly slept in the same tree. 



The distribution of adult females in the yard at Barbican (fig. 6) 

 sho^^'s a similar mutually exclusive distribution though v.ith more 

 overlap than shown by the adult males. Of the 20 females mapped, 

 all but 3 of them were within the observed activity ranges of adult 

 males. 



The distribution of the young males (fig. 7) again shows an almost 

 mutually exclusive distribution, though small ones may overlap wdth 

 larger ones. The larger subadult males generally show an exclusion 

 also with females. Unlike the females, 7 of the young males lived in 

 areas where there was no adult male. 



In contrast to the line of poui trees, the Barbican yard had more 

 females than males and, whereas in the former area there were several 

 males without females, in Barbican there were several females without 

 males. 



Figure 2 shows only a single large male living on an isolated tree, 

 but there are 8 adult females and 3 young males also living there. One 

 female lived on the tree trunk and some of the lower branches and 

 seldom visited the ferns on the ground. Seven of the 8 females lived 

 in the ferns at the base of the tree, dividing the area among them so 

 that there was little overlap, though in two cases 2 females occupied 

 the same space at different times. Many of these females also visited 

 the lower tree trunk, where little spatial separation was evident, but 

 none of them used this as a usual perch. 



Of the 3 smaller males, 1 had an activity range in the ferns that 

 was largely separated from that of females living in the same area. 

 He also climbed up among the lower branches of the tree. The other 

 2 small males had activity ranges on the branches of the tree largely 



