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Reported at Santa Fe, Abiquiu,San lldefonso, and Plaza del Alcalde 

 by Yarrow and Cope. 1 



Uta stansburiana Baird & Girard. Stansbury s Small-sealed 

 Swift. :Lto &quot; 



Reported at San lldefonso by Yarrow and Cope. 2 



Uta levis Stejneger. OlivB Small-scaled Swift. 



Type locality is Tierra Amarilla. 3 This appears to be Yarrow s 

 record 4 under the name Uta ornata Baird & Girard. Our Indian 

 informants say that snakes swallow these lizards. They are harmless. 



Sceloporus undulatus consobrinus (Baird & Girard). Yellow- 



banded Spiny-scaled Swift. 



Yarrow reported this species from Santa Fe and described Scelo 

 porus tristichus from Taos, the description being written by Cope 

 apparently. Afterward Yarrow reported tristichus from Taos and 

 consobrinus from both Taos and Santa Fe. Cope later repeated Yar 

 row s records for both localities, but made botli of them subspecies 

 of undulatus? Ditmars 6 ignores tristichus. Small lizards of this 

 group are very abundant at El Rito de los Frijoles, darting in and 

 out among the rocks and logs everywhere in the canyon. The only 

 specimens we collected are assigned to consobrinus. 



Phrynosoma douglassii Tiernandesi (Girard). Western Horned 



Lizard. 



Reported at Taos, Santa Fe, Abiquiu, and San lldefonso by Yarrow 

 and Cope. 7 We collected two specimens of horned lizard at El Rito 

 de los Frijoles, and both are Jiernandesi. Our Indian informants 

 declared that snakes swallow these lizards, swell up, burst, and the 

 lizard comes out alive. This is not more fantastic than some of the 

 popular notions of white people concerning animals. The name 

 &quot; horned toad,&quot; usually applied to this animal, should be dropped 

 even from popular literature, as it belongs distinctly to the Reptilia 

 and not to the Amphibia. 



Phrynosoma douglassii ornatissimum (Girard). Ornate Horned 

 Lizard. 



1 Yarrow, H. C., Report, op. cit., p. 569; Check -List, op cit. , pp. 56-57. Cope, E. D., op. cit., pp. 293-97. 



2 Yarrow, H. C., Report, op. cit., p. 566, Check-List, op. cit., p. 49. Cope, op. cit., p. 310. 

 s Stejneger, op. cit., p. 108. Cope, op. cit., p. 313. 



&amp;lt; Yarrow, H. C., Check-List, op. cit., p. 56. 



6 Yarrow, H. C., Report, op. cit., p. 572; Check-List, op. cit., pp. 61-62. Cope, E.D., op. cit., pp. 376-81. 

 e Ditmars, R. L., Reptile Book, New York, 1907. 



7 Yarrow, H. C., Report,op. cit., p. 581; Check-List, op. cit., pp. 68-69. Cope, E. D., op. cit., pp. 413-15. 



