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The writer has usually found this lizard in the open 
sun in places with sparse vegetation. It lives in small 
holes in the sand or gravel and stays there during the 
night, and on cold and cloudy days. When disturbed by 
a collector it often escapes by running swiftly into plum 
thickets, which are numerous where it occurs in abun- 
dance. 
Little attention has been given to the breeding habits 
of these sand swifts. Taylor (unpublished) found the 
egg number to be from six to eight. A specimen which 
was collected in Osborne County, late in July, 1926, con- 
tained seven eggs which measured about twelve by eigh- 
teen millimeters in size. 
This species is a voracious feeder upon small insects, 
particularly small grasshoppers and bugs. 
Distribution in Kansas.—The range of the spotted liz- 
ard in Kansas extends approximately over the western 
two thirds of the state. Although listed from Woodson, 
Wilson, Elk, and Butler counties, it is very uncommon 
in the southeastern part of the state and occurs there 
only in sandy areas. In McPherson County it was found 
on ‘‘T'win Mounds,’’ which are two large sand and rock 
covered hills that rise above the prairie. The distribution 
of the lizard in that vicinity was very local. Its power to 
live in a small favorable area might help to explain its 
widespread distribution over isolated sandy places like 
those of southeastern Kansas mentioned above. In the 
sand dune region surrounding the salt marshes of Staf- 
ford County this subspecies is present in large numbers, 
and may be seen on warm days of the spring or summer 
running swiftly across open sandy places which are in- 
terspersed with small patches of vegetation. The chalk 
beds of Trego and Gove counties have yielded many 
specimens. In Ottawa County the writer found this : 
