216 3. IGUANID.^ 



"I saw a female of this species swallow a large-winged 

 insect it had picked up from the sand. The stomach of a 

 male contained chewed plant stems and what appeared to be 

 the broken shells of insect eggs. An elongate, white, tick- 

 like parasite was seen affixed head downwards in the axilla of 

 a long-tailed swift." 



41. Uta nigricauda Cope 



San Lucas Uta 



Uia ornata Baird, Proc. Acad. N.it. Sci. Phila., 1859, p. 299; Yarrow, 

 Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 24, 1883, p. 56 (part); Belding, West 

 American Scientist, Vol. Ill, No. 24, 1887, p. 98. 



Uta nigricauda Cope, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1 864, p. 1 76 (type 

 locality, Cape St. Lucas, Lower California); Cope, Proc. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila, 1866, p. 312; Cope, Bull. U. S. N.at. Mus., 

 No. 1, 1875, pp. 48, 93; Yarrow, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 24, 

 1883, p. 55; Garman, Bull. Essex Inst., Vol. XVI, No. 1, 1884, 

 p. 16; BouLENGER, Cat. Lizards Brit. Mus., Vol. II, 1885, p. 212; 

 Cope, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 32, p. 35; Belding, West Amer- 

 ican Scientist, Vol. Ill, No. 24, 1887, p. 98; Van Denburgh, Proc. 

 Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 2, Vol. 5, 1895, p. 106; Cope, Report U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. for 1898, 1900, p. 322, fig. 44; Van Denburgh, Proc. 

 Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 3, Zool., Vol. 4, No. 1, 1905, pp. 3, 25; Dit- 

 mars. Reptile Book, 1907, p. 125; Van Denburgh & Slevin, Proc. 

 Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, Vol. 4, 1914, pp. 132, 145; Stejneger & 

 Barbour, Check List. N. Amer. Amph. Rept., 1917, p. 51; Van 

 Denburgh & Slevin, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., Ser. 4, Vol. XI, 1921, 

 p. 51, 58; Nelson, Mem. Nat. Acad. Sci., Vol. XVI, 1921, pp. 114, 

 115; Terron, Mem. y Rev. Soc. Cient. Antonio Alzate, Vol. 39, 

 1921, p. 164; Schmidt, Amer. Mus. Novitates, No. 22, 1921, 

 pp. 5, 6. 



Uta schotti Yarrow, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 24, 1883, p. 5 5 (part). 



? Uta gratiosa Mocquard, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Ser. 4, Vol. 1, 

 1899, p. 307. 



Description. — Body and tail not very slender, former as 

 well as head slightly depressed. Snout rounded but rather 

 narrow, with nostrils opening in small round plates, much 



