UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PUBLICATIONS 



IN 



ZOOLOGY 



Vol. 12, No. 17, pp. 503-544, pis. 19-22 August 12, 1916 



I* SEP lti^ 6 



NOTES ON THE LOCAL DISTRIBUTION AND\ /k, 



HABITS OF THE AMPHIBIANS AND 



REPTILES OF SOUTHEASTERN 



CALIFORNIA IN THE VICINITY 



OF THE TURTLE MOUNTAINS 



BY 



CHAELES LEWIS CAMP 

 (Contribution from the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology of the University of California) 



CONTENTS 



PAGE 



Introduction: geography, climate, plant and animal associations 503 



Cheek-list of the species of amphibians and reptiles of the Turtle Mountain 



region 508 



General notes on the amphibians and reptiles of the Colorado Desert 509 



Annotated list of amphibians and reptiles 512 



INTRODUCTION 



A prominent feature in the topography of southeastern California 

 is a chain of rugged hills known as the Turtle Mountains. These lie 

 thirty miles west of Parker, Arizona (on the Colorado River), and 

 extend north from the San Bernardino- Riverside county line for about 

 forty miles. The author's survey of this particular part of the desert 

 extended over a period of nineteen days, in May and June of 1914. 

 In July, 1909, a day was spent at Goffs, a station on the Santa Fe 

 Railroad thirty miles west of Needles, California, and about sixty 

 miles north of Blythe Junction. At the latter point, on the Parker 

 branch of the Santa Fe, six days were spent in June, 1914. At all 

 these places especial attention was paid to the vertebrates. Altogether 

 one hundred and thirteen specimens of reptiles and amphibians were 



