LIZAUDS AND SALAMANDERS OF CANADA. 



By Philip Cox, Ph. D. 



Scincidae. 



Body covered with sciiles and dermal plates. Ovovivi parous. 

 Non-aquatic at any period of life. Limbs four, ribs cartilaginous. 



Eumeces quiuquelineatus Linn. 

 Blue-tailed Lizard. 



It is probably the only true lizard indigenous to Canada, the 

 numerous species of the genus being of southern range. It occurs 

 sparingly in the peninsula between Lakes Erie and Ontario, and 

 as far east as the County of Peterboro, where it wna collected 

 and described by Cephas Guillet in the Ottawa Naturalist. 

 March, 1903, p. 39. 



The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, contains a speci- 

 men. No. 4135, from "Eastern Nova Scotia," but recent writers on 

 the herpetology of the province, notably L. H. MacKay, LL. D., 

 do not include it in their lists, nor make any reference whatever 

 to its former alleged occurrence. Vide "Batrachians and Reptiles 

 of Nova Scotia" by A. H. ALicKay. Proceedings of Nova Scotia 

 Institute of Science, Vol. IX., 1895-6. 



It would be interesting to ascertain the facts connected wiili 

 this record. The late J. M. Jones, who wrote many articles on 

 the fishes and reptiles of that province, published the "Naturalist 

 in Bermuda." in which he described a skink indigenous to the 

 island. Was this specimen referred l)y himself or some subse- 

 quent student to the Smithsonian authorities, who erroneously 

 labelled it from Nova Scotia? The fact remains that there is no 

 well-authenticated record of any having been found on the 

 peninsula. 



E. septeutrionnlis Baird. a closely allied form, may occur in 

 southern Manitoba and Saskatchewan, for it has been collected 

 in northern Minnesota. 



