The Lizards of Kansas i 
THE LIZARDS OF KANSAS* 
CHARLES E, BURT 
Considerable work has been done on the lizards of 
Kansas, but it is scattered through various publications 
and manuscripts, and there is evident need for consoli- 
dation and further research. 
Three papers of primary interest to students of the 
herpetology of Kansas are those of Dr. F. W. Cragin 
(1881, 1884, and 1885), in which fifteen species of lizards 
were listed from the state. After making extensive col- 
lections during the summer of 1916, Mr. Victor H. Hous- 
holder prepared a thesis on the ‘‘Lizards and Turtles of 
Kansas,’’** and during the same year Dr. Edward H. 
Taylor completed a manuscript study of the ‘‘ Lizards of 
Kansas.’’** The author has recently written an article 
on ‘‘The Insect Food of Kansas Lizards, with Notes on 
Feeding Habits,’’ which is soon to appear in the recently 
established Journal of the Kansas Entomological So- 
ciety. Since full accounts are given in it, only summary 
sentences of the feeding habits of each species are pre- 
sented below. 
This present work was done at the Kansas State Ag- 
ricultural College during the years 1924 to 1927 with 
the following objectives in view: (1) The determination 
of the species of Kansas lizards, (2) The study of their 
taxonomy and variation, (3) The preparation of a key 
for their identification, (4) The preparation of an out- 
line of their distribution, with an analysis of the ecologi- 
eal factors which influence it, and (5) The presentation 
of a study of their habitats and habits. 
*Contribution No. 99 from the Department of —. of | the iS 
Kansas State Agricultural College. 
_ **These works were produced independently at the Kansa 
