New York State Museum 



LIZAKDS, TORTOISES AND BATRACHIAJSTS OF 



JSTEW YORK 



BY F. C. PAULMIER PH. D. 

 INTRODUCTION 



The following catalogue describes the lizards, tortoises and batra- 

 •chians which occur in JSTew 1 ork or which from their occurrence 

 in adjoining states may be expected to be found here. Since the 

 appearance of Holb rook's and DeKay's work, no papers dealing 

 with these forms as a whole, have appeared, except those of Sher- 

 wood and Smith which catalogue the species found near New York 

 city. Thus practically nothing is known of the forms found in the 

 northern and western part of the state and collections made there 

 would be of great value in studying the distribution of the 

 groups. 



The main works on the lizards, tortoises and batrachians are 

 included in the following bibliography. Other references will be 

 found in the list on p. 357, where such works are marked with an 

 asterisk. The descriptions are taken mainly from the papers by 

 Cope and Jordan. 



'Cope, E. D. '89. The batrachia of North America. U. S. nat. mus. Bui. 

 34. 1889. 



'98. Crocodilians, lizards and snakes of North America. U. S. nat. mus. 



Rep't. 1898. 



Jordan, D. S. '99. A manual of the vertebrate animals of the northern 



United States. Ed. 8. 1899. 

 DeKay, J. E. '42. Natural history of New York. Zoology of New York. v. 3. 



Reptiles and amphibia. 3, text; 4, plates. 1842. 

 Holbrook, J. E. '42. North American herpetology. 1842. 

 Sherwood, W. L. '94. Salamanders found in the vicinity of New York city, 



with notes on extralimital or allied species. Linn. soc. of N. Y. Abst. proc. 



1894-95. No. 7. 



'97. Frogs and toads found in the vicinity of New York city. Ibid. 



1897-98. No. 10. 



iSmith, Eugene. '98. Turtles and lizards of the vicinity of New York city. 

 Ibid. 1898-99. No. 11. 



