The Inzards of Kansas 55 
feet high. The holes at the bottom and at the top of the 
stump were both closed. Then a sack was placed over 
the bottom hole which was opened while the top one was 
left closed. The lizard would not, however, go into the 
trap prepared for it as a snake would probably have 
done. The principle was reversed, the bottom hole be- 
ing plugged and the top one opened and covered with 
the sack, whereupon the skink ran upward and was cap- 
tured. 
Several writers have written notes bearing upon the 
breeding habits of E. fasciatus. Smith (1882) found 
that ‘‘It lays nine oval eggs at a time.’’? The egg sets 
found by Strecker (1908) were all of eight eggs each. 
Allard (1909) reported the finding of seven eggs in a 
cavity under the bark of a rotten log. A total of twelve 
eggs were recorded for a female by Dunn (1920). After 
collecting in western Tennessee, Blanchard (1922) wrote 
that ‘‘An adult female with nine eggs was found on July 
12, under the loose bark of a fallen tree in the woods. 
The eggs appeared to be in no special cavity, but merely 
lay in the damp rotted wood, between the bark and the 
harder wood beneath.’’ Lindsdale (1927) reported see- 
ing young in Doniphan County, Kansas, as early as June 
12, 1923, but the writer is inclined to believe that they 
were some that had hatched during the previous season. 
A female collected at Lawrence, Douglas County, by 
Mr. W. H. Burt on May 17, 1926, laid a set of six eggs 
on June 12. Another female with eleven eggs was taken 
in the same locality on June 18. Both the skink and the 
eggs were found in an old rotted log which oceupied a 
shaded position near a creek bed. Young of this species 
were found by the Kansas University Biological Survey 
about July 26, 1926, in Anderson County, Kansas, and 
it is the opinion of Dr. Edward H. Taylor of Kansas 
University that they were newly hatched. 
