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bats at Klamath. This little creature has also been 

 observed at Santa Cruz, and doubtless is found at 

 San Miguel and Santa Rosa. There are wild burros 

 and wild cattle on Santa Catalina, but they are run- 

 aways from herds. I have never seen any other 

 animals here. There are few rattlesnakes on Santa 

 Catalina, but in many miles' travel over this island, 

 at all seasons, I have never seen but one, and that 

 was a small one with a single rattle, v/hich was run 

 over in the streets of Avalon in 1909. The gopher 

 snake is said to occur here, but I have never seen it. 

 Between Little Harbor and the Isthmus, near an 

 Indian camp site where I found a number of imple- 

 ments, I saw a beautiful coral snake with alternate 

 rings of red and black. There are a number of lizards 

 on the island, as the brown-shouldered lizard {Uta 

 stanshtriana) , the island fence lizard (Sceloporus), and 

 the common alligator lizard (Gerrlionotus) . I have seen 

 the latter at Santa Catalina and others at San Miguel, 

 Santa Rosa, and Santa Cruz. The island night lizard 

 {Xaxtusia) is common on nearly all the islands. I 

 have never seen coyotes, skunks, badgers, or any of 

 the large mammals common on the mainland. If any 

 such did occur they may have been killed off by the 

 natives. The sea elephant was once common on 

 Santa Catalina, as we are told by Scammon, and seals 

 and sea-lions and a very few otters are still here. About 

 twelve years ago I saw a white otter near Church Rock. 

 Doubtless a careful and exhaustive examination 

 would show other small mammals and reptiles, espe- 

 cially at the large islands, but there are extremely 

 few reptiles or insects that are in any way a menace 

 to human life or comfort. 



