518 8. TE1IDJE 



or buffy white, often spotted or blotched with black 5 the 

 markings on the gular region being few and usually very 

 small. 



Length to anus 79 79 87 99 103 105 



Length of tail 207 204 24-2 252 231 



Snout to ear . 18 18 19 23 22 24 



Snout to interparietal 



plate 15 15 15 18 18 19 



Width of head 11 11 12 16 13 15 



Fore limb 29 29 30 33 35 36 



Hind limb 59 58 64 68 71 73 



Base of fifth to end of 



fourth toe 30 28 30 31 32 32 



Distribution. The California Whiptail Lizard replaces 

 C. tessellatus tessellatus in the northern, as C. t. stejnegen 

 does in the southern, portion of California west of the 

 desert. Its range seems to be continuous with that of C. /. 

 tessellams through Walker and Tehachapi passes and the 

 Canada de las Uvas, and thence extends north on the lower 

 levels of the western slope of the Sierra Nevada and the 

 floor of tie San Joaquin Valley. The most northern record 

 seems to be the McCloud River. It ranges west to San 

 Luis Obispo, Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Clara counties. 

 It rntergrades with C. t. tessellatus in the region of Walker 

 Pass, and perhaps elsewhere with this subspecies and with 

 C. t. s'ejriegeri) though this has not yet been shown. 



Definite localities are Kern (Walker Basin, Kelso Creek 

 Valley and Fay Creek near Weldon, Kern River above Kern- 

 ville and at Isabella, Mt. Breckinridge, Canebreak near 

 Walker Pass, Freeman Canyon, Onyx, Kern River near Bod- 

 fish, Buena Vista Lake, Bakersfield, 20 miles south from 

 Bakersfield, Wheeler Ridge, McKittrick, Caliente Creek, 

 San Emigdio Plains), Tulare (Earlinart, Tipton), Fresno 

 (Fresno, at 2,000 feet one mile south from Dunlap, Fort 



