398 3. IGUANIDM 



Pasadena), Ventura (Matilija, Mount Pinos, Montalvo, 

 Nordhoff), Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, 

 Schoolhouse Canyon Cuyama Valley), Kern (Walker Pass 

 at 5200 feet, Walker Basin, Weldon, Onyx, Bodfish, Kern 

 River at Isabella, South Fork of the Kern River, Kern 

 Valley, Chimney Creek, Wheeler Ridge Road, Fort Tejon, 

 Canada de las Uvas, Tehachapi Mountains, Rose Station, 

 Breckenridge, Bakersfield, Buttonwillow, Asphalto, McKit- 

 trick, San Emigdio Plains), San Luis Obispo (Simmler, 

 Temblor Pass, Temblor Mountains, San Juan River south 

 from Shandon, Shandon, Edna), Monterey (Metz, Abbot's 

 Ranch, Arroyo Seco, Carmel Valley, Carmel, Pacific Grove, 

 Monterey, Del Monte), San Benito (San Juan, Bear Val- 

 ley), Santa Cruz ( Watson ville), Santa Clara (Canada Val- 

 ley, Gilroy, Coyote Creek, Morgan Hill, Los Gatos, Lyn- 

 don, Wright's, Congress Springs, Mount Hamilton, Smith 

 Creek, Santa Clara, Mountain View, Stanford, Mayfield), 

 Santa Mateo (Searsville), Alameda (Livermore, Berke- 

 ley), Contra Costa (Antioch, Mount Diablo), Napa, Tulare 

 (Earlinart, Tipton, Goshen), Kings (Lemore), Fresno 

 (Mendota, Fresno), Madera (five miles south from 

 Madera), Mariposa (five miles northeast from Coulter- 

 ville), Tuolumne (Sonora), Merced (Livingston, Gad- 

 wall, Los Bafios, five miles north from Los Banos), San 

 Joaquin (Lathrop, Tracy, Ripon), Calaveras (Mokelumne 

 Hill), El Dorado (Placerville), and Placer (Colfax, Au- 

 burn, Forest Hill), counties, California. 



Habits. — Their grotesqueness of form, slowness of 

 movement, and the ease with which they may be fed, cause 

 these lizards to be much sought as pets. In confinement 

 they are usually very docile, and become so tame that they 

 will readily take flies or other small Insects from the fingers 



