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flight, but by concealment. It will dive behind a trunk of 
a tree and while trying to dodge one hand may be caught 
by the other.’’ Rhoads (1895) found it distributed all 
over the state of Tennessee below the elevation of 3,000 
feet. Hay (1902) wrote that it was ‘‘ Very common in the 
higher and drier situations. It is often seen there dur- 
ing the warm days of summer, basking in the sunshine 
of some exposed rail fence or log.’? Hahn (1908) ob- 
served that ‘‘They are very abundant in the woods and 
along fences.’’ Allard (1909) stated that ‘‘It is a very 
common lizard familiar to nearly everyone throughout 
the south. It is abundant in all wooded upland situa- 
tions, and loves to bask in the hot sun, as it stretches out 
lazily at full length on a fence rail or rock. When dis- 
turbed it runs with great agility, usually up the nearest 
tree. On the tree trunk it usually moves so as to keep 
the tree between itself and the observer.’’ Dunn (1915) 
stated that these lizards are found ‘‘Chiefly on trees and 
fences, or very rarely on the ground. They are rather 
agile and difficult to capture, save with a noose. They do 
not, as a rule, go into holes when hard pressed, though I 
have seen one hide under the loose bark of a stump.”’ 
Ditmars (1915) has found that ‘‘Captive specimens re- 
quire an abundance of sunlight and a perfectly dry 
cage.’? Wright and Funkhouser (1915), working in 
northern Georgia, found this lizard to be ‘‘ Abundant in 
higher and drier parts, and most common in the sandy 
pine lands where they seem to prefer the fallen timber, 
logs, and stumps.’’ Deckert (1918) found the pine liz- 
zard to be numerous on pine saplings and fallen timber 
in Florida. Barbour (1919) quoted Mr. A. G. Reynolds 
as writing that ‘‘When on a burnt log Sceloporus wndu- 
latus often tries to escape capture by running a short 
distance then squatting suddenly to escape notice.’’ Holt 
