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ciated with it particularly although each was in the 

 Lake of Bays region in numbers. 



A. H. Wright, 



Ithaca, N . Y '. 



RATTLESNAKES ON CATALINA 

 ISLAND. 



Van Denburgh and Slevin (Proc^ Calif. Acad, 

 of Sci., 4th Ser., Vol. IV, pp. 138-139) state that the 

 presence of rattlesnakes on Catalina Island off the 

 coast of southern California was first recorded by 

 Yarrow from a specimen taken there by Mr. Schu- 

 macher in 1876. One additional specimen only is re- 

 corded. In that so little is known of Crotalus ore- 

 gonus on the island, the following notes may be of 

 interest : 



During July, 1906, while camped at Whites 

 Landing, I killed a rattlesnake about two feet long. 

 The specimen was not saved. I believe that several 

 other specimens were killed during the summer. At 

 that time rattlesnakes were considered fairly common 

 over the greater part of the eastern slope of the island. 



Mr. Murray L. Royar, who has just returned 

 from a summer spent at Avalon, has donated to the 

 Museum of Vertebrate Zoology a small specimen of 

 Crotalus oregonus taken at Avalon on August 2, 

 1915. Mr. Royar reports that old-timers on Catalina 

 Island say that there were no rattlesnakes on the isl- 

 and in early days. Later, when hay and other crops 

 were introduced, rattlesnakes appeared. The rep- 

 tiles were first seen around barns and near civiliza- 

 tion and later took to the hills. He also states that 

 even at the present time few are found far inland. 



H ahold C. Bryant, 



Berk etc if, Calif. 



Edited l>y J. T. Nichols, American Museum of Natural History 

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