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series. Number of scales from symphyseal plate to anus 

 varying at least from fifty-six to sixty-two. 



The ground color above is olivaceous brown, without 

 cross-bands, but with numerous irregular dark brown 

 spots, which sometimes form longitudinal series. The 

 head and limbs are usually more or less clouded with 

 dark brown. The lower surfaces are yellowish or green- 

 ish white, often slightly washed with gray, and with or 

 without slate-colored lines between the longitudinal 

 series of scales. 



Length to anus 90 91 96 96 102 105 



Length of tail 141 151 139 152 148 



Snout to ear 16 17 18 18 19 19 



Width of head 12 12 12 12 13 13 



Head to interoceipital 14 14 15 15 15 15 



Fore limb 21 21 23 22 23 23 



Hind limb 28 27 29 29 29 29 



Base of fifth to end of fourth toe 10 10 11 10 U U 



Distribution. — The Northern Alligator Lizard is a 

 species of western Washington and Oregon, whose range 

 seems to extend south on the western slope of the Sierra 

 Nevada of California at least as far as Red Point, Placer 

 County.^ It may, perhaps, live also in the northwest- 

 ern corner of the State. I believe that this form will 

 be found to intergrade with both G. burnettii, of the 

 coast, and G. palineri, of the southern Sierra Nevada. 

 Northward its range extends to Vancouver Island. It 

 is very abundant near Puget Sound. 



31. — Gerrhonotous palmeri (Stejneger). Mountain 

 Alligator Lizard. 



Gerrhonotus scincicauda palmeri, Stejneger, N. A. Fauna, No. 

 1893, p. 196 (type locality South Fork King's River, Calif.). 



Description. — Body long and rather slender, with 



* The identity of this specimen is not certain. It may, possibly, be an abnormal 

 example of G. palmeri. 



