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Jolt 1, 1921 Vol. VII, rp. 91-112 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 



REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS FROM THE 

 BRITISH SOLOMON ISLANDS 



BY THOMAS BARBOUR 



The material, now in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 

 upon which this report is based, is probably the most extensive 

 single collection ever made in the Solomons. Dr. W. M. Mann, 

 the collector, visited many localities previously unworked and 

 received much kind aid from both officials and traders, as well 

 as missionaries. Acknowledgments to these various persons 

 have been made by Dr. Mann himself, and he has also given a 

 synopsis of the localities which he visited, as well as the dura- 

 tion of his sojourn in each one, so that it seems unnecessary to 

 repeat these details here. (Cf. Mann, Bull. M. C. Z., 63, 1919, 

 p. 273.) 



The reptiles and amphibians of the Solomons have been made 

 known almost wholly through the studies of Boulenger, based 

 upon the famous collections of Guppy and Woodford. Boulenger 

 suspected that our knowledge of the fauna was fast approaching 

 completion, when the last two collections made by Woodford, 

 viz., those reported upon in the Proceedings of the Zoological 

 Society for 1888 and 1890, contained only a few species which 

 hitherto were unknown. Mann's large booty only emphasizes 

 this fact, and we now may safely say that the fauna is really 

 well known — unless exploration of the highlands of the interior 

 of the islands reveals unexpected upland forms. The interior of 

 the islands remains little known. 



