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REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1898. 

 Sceloporus clarkii — Coutiuued. 



U.S. 



N.M. 

 No. 



1809C 



18097 

 18098 

 18099 

 18100 

 18101 

 18102 

 18lo:! 



18104 

 18105 

 18106 

 18107 

 18108 

 18109 

 18110 



18111 

 18112 

 181 1:? 

 18114 



18115 

 18116 



18117 

 18118 



18119 

 18120 

 18121 

 18122 

 18123 

 18124 



18125 

 18126 



18127 



18129 

 18130 



18132 

 18133 



Sex and 

 age. 



Female. 

 Male... 

 Female. 

 Female. 

 Female ' 

 Male' -. 

 Female - 

 Male . . . 

 Male . . . 

 .Male... 

 Male' .- 

 Male... 

 l^Iale... 

 Jifale . . . 

 Male'.. 



Locality. 



Paliranagat Valley, Nevada 

 do 



-do 

 .do 

 .do 

 .do 



Paliranagat Mountaius. Nevada 



Pall rump Valley, Nevada 



Callville, Nevada 



Ash Meadows, Nevada 



do 



Vegas Valley, Nevada 



Indian Spring Vallev, Nevada - . 



do .' 



Grapevine Mountains, Nevada. . 



Male' ... Bunkerville, Nevada % 



Male . . . . St. George, Utah 



Male do 



Male Diamond Valley. 10 miles north of 



St. George, Lftah. 



Male do 



Male Panamint Mountaius, Cottonwood 



Canyon, Caliibruia. 



Male do 



Male Panamint Mountaius, Willow 



Creek, Califoruia. 



Female' do 



Female . . j Walker Pass, California 



Female..! do 



Female. do 



Male I Mohave, Mohave Deserf, Califoruia 



Male Near Mohave, Mohave Desert, 



j California. 



■Male do 



Male do 



Male . . . 



Female - 



Female. 

 Female. 



Male . . . 



Female ' 

 Male . . . 



Mohave Desert, near base of Gran- 

 ite Mountains, California. 



Argus Kange, Shepherd Canyon, 

 California. 



do 



Argus Range, Searl's Garden, 

 Califoruia. 



Owens Valley (Lone Pine), Cali- 

 fornia. 



do 



Columbus, Nevada 



Alti- 

 tude. 



4, 100 



4, 800 

 4,800 



3, 900 



3, 800 



4,600 

 4,000 



4, 000 

 4,000 



3,000 



May 23 

 ...do ... 

 ...do... 

 ...do... 

 . . .do . . . 

 May 25 

 May 26 

 Apr. 29 

 May 4 

 Mar. 16 

 Mar. 20 

 May 1 

 May 29 

 ...do .. 

 June 8 



May 8 



May 12 



May 13 



May 16 



May 16 

 June 14 



May 29 

 May 22 



May 17 

 July 2 

 Julf 1 

 , . . .do . . . 

 June 26 

 ...do ... 



...do ... 

 Apr. 6 

 Apr. 25 



Apr. 29 



Apr. 27 

 Apr. 24 



June 11 



June 12 

 Dec. '90 



Collector. 



Merriam . 

 ...do .... 

 ...do .... 

 Bailey ... 

 Merriam. 

 Bailey ... 

 Merriam. 

 ...do .... 

 Bailey ... 

 Nelson . . . 

 Palmer . . 

 Bailey ... 

 Merriam. 

 Bailey ... 

 Nelson... 



Merriam. 

 Bailey . . . 

 ...do.... 

 Merriam . 



...do .... 

 Nelson... 



...do .... 

 ...do .--- 



...do .... 

 Bailey ... 

 ...do.... 

 ...do .... 

 Palmer .. 

 Merriam. 



....do.... 

 ...do.... 

 •Bailey . . . 



Fisher ... 



....do.... 

 Stephens 



Fisher . . . 



....do.... 

 Bailey ... 



Yucca belt. 



4,000 feet above 

 Salt Wells, 

 M e s q u i t e 

 Valley. 



Lava rock. 



Do. 



4,400 feetabove 

 Salt Wells. 



On rocks. 



1 Young. 



Dr. Merriam, in bis report upon the results of the Death Yalley expe- 

 dition, gives the habits of this sj)ecies as follows: 



The large scaly liz.ir<l known as Sceloporus darldi {magister) is a lower Souorau 

 species, ranging across the southern deserts aud desert ranges of the Great Basin 

 from California to Arizona and southwestern Utah. Unlike most of the lizards 

 inhabiting the same region, it does not run about on the open desert, but lives on 

 the tree yuccas, the ruins of stone, or adobe dwellings, the nests of wood rats, and 

 other objects that afford it shelter and protection. At the mouth of Beaverdam 

 Creek, in northwestern Arizona, it was common among cottonwood logs and dead 

 leaves. In Pahrauagat Valley it was abundant about the ruins of stone houses and 

 along the faces of cliffs. In the Mohave Desert aud other localities it is common on 

 the tree yuccas, where it was often found on the very sunnuits oi the highest branches, 

 and where it was rather wary and difficult of capture without a gvin. 



In California it occurs throughout the Mohave Desert, ranging as far west as the 

 tree yuccas in Antelope Valley and Walker Pass, aud thence easterly in Owens Val- 

 ley, Borax Flat, and the Argus aud Panamint mountains. 



In Nevada it was found on the Grapevine Mountains, in Ash Meadows, in Pah- 

 rump Valley, at the foot of the Charleston Mountaius, in Vegas and Indian Springs 



