13. PHRYNOSOMA 391 



6200 feet at Clark Ranch, Seven Oaks and Santa Ana 

 Canyon, Ontario, Lytle Creek, San Bernardino, Colton), 

 Orange (Santa Ana, Laguna Beach), Riverside (Riverside, 

 Perris Valley, Hemet Valley, San Jacinto, Reche Canyon, 

 Banning, Cabazon at 1700 to 2000 feet, Temescal Moun- 

 tains, Vallevista, and in the San Jacinto Mountains at Pop- 

 pet Flat, Vandeventer Flat, Shain's Ranch, Fuller's Mill at 

 5900 feet, Kenworthy, Keen Camp, arid Oak Springs west 

 side of Palm Canyon at 6500 feet), and San Diego (Oak 

 Grove, Chihuahua Mountains, Julian, San Diego, Witch 

 Creek, Campo, Jacumba Hot Springs, Tijuana River, El 

 Nido, Twin Oaks, Mesa Grande, Warner's Pass, Dulzura, 

 Escondido, National City), counties. 



In Lower California, this horned-toad has been col- 

 lected in the western part of the peninsula as far south as 

 San Telmo, while P. coronatum seems to range north to San 

 Quintin. Definite localities at which P. b. blamvilUi has 

 been taken are Nachoguero Valley on the United States 

 boundary line, Ensenada, Valladeres, San Salado, Trinidad, 

 Wasson's Ranch in San Rafael Valley, and San Telmo. 



Habits. — It is this subspecies which usually is seen stuffed 

 in the shops of the curio dealers, whose enterprise is said to 

 have materially reduced the numbers of these lizards about 

 Pasadena and Los Angeles. Specimens also are often kept 

 alive. They sometimes live many months with little or no 

 food, but gradually become emaciated. As noted by Dr. 

 and Mrs. Grinnell: "It is difficult to provide them in cap- 

 tivity with an adequate supply of their insect food in the 

 variety their constitutions seem to demand. The inevitable 

 result sooner or later follows the attempt to keep them per- 

 manently captive. 



"Homed toads are as beneficial about the garden as the 

 brown-shouldered lizard, and perhaps more so; for their 



