No. 3. — Batrachia and Beptilia from the Bahamas. 

 By Thomas Barbour. 



This paper is the fourth of a series based on collections made by 

 Dr. G. M. Allen, Mr. Owen Bryant, and the writer during part of the 

 Bummer of 1904 (June 28-July 28). AVe collected on the islands of 

 New Providence, Great Abaco, Little Abaco, Grand Bahama, as well 

 as on a number of outlying cays. Some specimens from New Provi- 

 dence Island, taken by the author in 1901, and a large series collected 

 by Mr. Bryant at Mangrove Cay, Andros Island, from August 1-7, 

 1904, are included. All the material mentioned is now in the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology, in Cambridge, Mass. A considerable number 

 of other specimens, also in the collection of the INEuseum, have been 

 utilized. 



Cope has summed up the relations which the Bahaman reptilian 

 fauna bears to the surrounding regions in a paper in the Proceedings 

 of the United States National Museum, 1887, Vol. 10, pp. 436-439. 

 Since then several peculiar species have been added by Garman, Bul- 

 letin Essex Institute, 1888, Vol. 20, pp. 101-113. 



BATEACHIA. 



Trachycephalus septentrionalis Tsch. 



This tree-toad was abundant on New Providence Island, where we obtained 

 fourteen specimens. Most of these were taken during the daytime, sitting 

 among the leaves of orange and lemon trees, or on sisal plants. When 

 approached, they made little or no effort to escape. Their noise at night 

 sounds like that of a rope drawn through an unoiled pulley. The species 

 was less common at Little Abaco, where only one specimen was obtained, 

 though several others were heard. There is a specimen in the Museum from 

 Andros Island, where Mr. Bryant heard several, but failed to obtain one. 

 Garman has recorded the species from Kuni Cay. 



M. C. Z. No. 2415. 



Distribution. — Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, and San Domingo. 



