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CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 



[Proc. 4th Ser. 



TABLE OF SCALE COUNTS— Abingdon Island— ConiwMeti 



Habits.— Ahmgdon Island, Sept. 18 and 22, 1906. Went 

 ashore on the south side of the island. Landed on a good sand 

 beach and worked inland about a mile. About half way up 

 the mountain a distinct green zone is plainly visible, while the 

 lower part is brown lava, not very rough, and covered spar- 

 ingly with cactus and trees. The lizards are abundant in this 

 lower portion, especially near the beach, which swarms with 

 seal-flies. Several stomachs examined contained these flies 

 and the leaves of a succulent plant which grows on the beach. 

 Lizards are most abundant near the beach, but their range ex- 

 tends up to 1500 feet, where they are rather scarce. 



"The food is chiefly vegetable, varied with insects, etc. 

 Stomachs examined contained berries, hard seeds, and blos- 

 soms, with an occasional grasshopper, beetle or other insect. 

 The seed capsules and berries are eaten for the fleshy part sur- 

 rounding the seeds, which is the only part digested, the seeds 

 passing unchanged through the alimentary canal." (Heller.) 



