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ticularly to Dr. Edward H. Taylor of Kansas University 
for the loan of his unpublished work on ‘‘The Lizards of 
Kansas’’ with the permission to use extracts from it* in 
the preparation of this paper, for complete data on the 
lizard collections of the Kansas University Biological 
Survey of the summer of 1926, and for his hearty co- 
operation throughout the progress of this study; and to 
Mr. Victor H. Housholder, formerly of Kansas Univer- 
sity, for the loan and permission to use extracts from his 
unpublished manuscript on ‘‘The Lizards and Turtles of 
Kansas’’*; also to Dr. Frank N. Blanchard of the Univer- 
sity of Michigan for the checking of identifications of 
lizards which were referred to him; to Dr. L. Stejneger 
and Miss Doris M. Cochran of the United States Na- 
tional Museum for some helpful identifications, opinions, 
and reports; and to Mrs. Helen T. Gaige of the Museum 
of Zoology of the University of Michigan for aid in the 
identification of certain specimens of Ewmeces. 
Through the courtesy of Mr. C. D. Bunker of the Kan- 
sas University Museum a large part of the data used in 
the preparation of this work were secured from the ex- 
cellent collection of over 1,000 specimens of Kansas liz- 
ards preserved there. Mr. Howard K. Gloyd has kindly 
loaned the lizard collection of Ottawa University, Mr. 
L. D. Wooster that of the Kansas State Teachers’ Col- 
lege of Hays, the Rev. Felix Nolte that of St. Benedict’s 
College, and Dean Emil O. Deere that of Bethany Col- 
lege. The United States National Museum has been very 
helpful in loaning specimens of the rarer species of 
lizards. 
The author wishes to express his appreciation to his 
wife, May Danheim Burt, with whom he has discussed 
much zaneh 96 this work, for assistance in the taking of data 
items that are quoted from these sources are indica a 
use ig ibe author’s name and the designation, “(Unpublished)”. 
