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The data obtained from 25 Kansas specimens are sum- 
marized below. Length of body, 34-78; length of tail, 
69-124; total length, 108-202; width of head, 4-11; length 
of tail as percentage of total length, 60.0-71.2; width of 
head as percentage of body length, 11.8-15.9. 
The writer has not found measurements given for this 
skink in the literature. 
Habitat and Habits —Very little has been written con- 
cerning the habitat and habits of this species. Ruthven 
(1910) stated that ‘‘It was found in the uplands and in 
the higher meadows, but only rarely. . . . Its prin- 
cipal habitat is undoubtedly the upland prairie.’’ Over 
(1923) found that it lives in grassy places near thickets, 
but is difficult to see by the casual observer. 
The author is indebted for some fine information con- 
cerning the Kansas habitat of this skink to Mr. F. F. 
Crevecoeur of Onaga, Pottawatomie County, Kansas, 
who has sent him a number of specimens with written 
accounts of their habitat and capture. Some extracts 
from his several letters follow. ‘‘While hunting ground 
beetles I have found as many as four of the northern 
skinks a day along a valley in a pasture about a mile 
from my home. Several times I have seen a specimen in — 
my dooryard crawling through the grass near the path 
leading to the barnyard. I believe that it has made its 
home in the wood pile. . . . Some other places that I 
have seen this species, which is about the only one that 
occurs around here, are under stones in a dry ereek bed; 
along a timbered creek under stones and at the foot of a 
stony hill which was at the side of a narrow piece of 
bottom land. . . . I remember seeing one on the up- 
land at the edge of a cornfield that I was cultivating. . . - 
I am sending you a skink today that I took this morning 
while I was digging in my dooryard.”’ 
