from the caymans and the bahamas. 109 



Testudinata. 



"A land or fresh-water Turtle has been introduced into 

 Cayman Brae from Grand Cayman ; it is called Hig-a-tee." 



"The Leather Back [_Dermochelys] occurs occasionally. 

 Loggerheads [ Thalassochelys] are abundant and breed on 

 the islands. May 3, I saw Avhere one had crawled ashore 

 in three places on Little Cayman. Although young Log- 

 gerheads must be abundant after hatching I was told the 

 small ones were never seen ; when captured they are al- 

 ways adult or nearly so." 



"Green and Hawksbill turtles are common, the latter 

 more so than the former. Both breed here and the young 

 of both are captured." 



"I was told of a hybrid between the Hawkbill and the 

 Loggerhead, on which the shell was good often, but not 

 always, and the head resembled that of the Loggerhead. 

 I asked the fishermen why the shell was not always good 

 and was informed that when the ©ffspring "took after the 

 mother " (always supposed to be the Loggerhead) the shell 

 was poor but that when they " took after the father," the 

 Hawkbill, the shell could be used." 



III. INAGUA. 

 Anolis leucoph^us sp. n. 



Head moderate, one and three-fourths times as long as 

 broad, longer than the tibia; frontal ridges low; forehead 

 concave ; rostral canthus medium. Upper head scales 

 smooth, moderately large ; those of the supraorbital series 

 larger, the length of the anterior equals half their distance 

 from the end of the snout, in contact on the mesial line ; 

 eight or nine enlarged, faintly keeled supraoculars, sepa- 

 rated from the supraorbitals by a single series of small 

 scales ; occipital nearly as large as the ear opening, sepa- 



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