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tions immediately upon being released. By 8:30 it was 
too dark to see anything clearly, so I carefully marked 
her location and left her until morning. The lizard was 
gone next morning, and there was only the slightest 
trace to mark the spot where I had watched the perform- 
ances of the previous evening. . . . Digging revealed the 
fact that the tunnel descended without turns to the depth 
of five and one-half inches. . . . This terminated in a 
circular chamber in which were laid 27 eggs, creamy 
white in color, and covered with a flexible leathery mem- 
brane.’’? Hight of the eggs were left in Texas with a 
friend and hatched on the thirty-ninth day (July 8), 
while nine were removed to Wisconsin and hatched on the 
forty-sixth and forty-seventh days (July 15 and 16). 
Both sets were kept in the original sand, so the variation 
in hatching dates was attributed to temperature differ- 
ences. Cahn also recorded the egg number in six sets 
which he had found, as follows: 27, 24, 25, 24, 23, and 25. 
The natural food of the Texas horned lizard is chiefly 
ants and other small insects. 
Discussion of Kansas Reports——Horned lizards are 
presumably absent from Northeastern Kansas. Only 
two reports are available from this area for P. cornutum. 
Douglas County; Specimens have been taken at various 
times on or near the Kansas University campus, but 
none have been taken in other parts of the county. These 
lizards are admittedly the offspring of adults turned 
loose in the vicinity. Franklin County; Dr. F. W. Cragin 
(1881) reported this species from Ottawa on the au- 
thority of Prof. Wheeler. Though specimens have been 
collected in recent years at short distances to the south 
and west of Franklin County, none have been taken 
within its boundaries. 
