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mens and his careful notes have been of great value in the com- 

 piling of the present list. Mr. Garni contracted tuberculosis and 

 died in 1914. 



Some years ago, Mr. Clement S. Brimley of Raleigh, 

 North Carolina, sent me a list of the species of reptiles and am- 

 phibians that he had received from one of his correspondents at 

 3an Antonio and also a few specimens from there. Personally I 

 have collected material in the near vicinity of San Antonio, and 

 through the kindness of my friends, Messrs. R. C. Edgar and 

 Buford Taylor, have been enabled to make trips along the San 

 Antonio and Salado rivers and to various localities along the 

 Babcock, Boerne and Leon Springs roads. 



Of the eighty-nine species of amphibians and reptiles re- 

 corded in the present list, authentic Bexar County specimens 

 of seventy-nine species are represented in the Baylor University 

 collection. I have seen authentic Bexar County specimens of 

 eight more species. One species has been recorded by reliable au- 

 thorities but no specimens have been examined by me. Via ornata 

 Baird and Girard is also included as a Bexar County reptile on 

 the basis of a single example obtained between San Antonio and 

 Boerne by Louis Garni. This specimen may have been collected 

 over the line in Kendall County but a close search will reveal 

 the presence of other specimens on the Bexar County side of 

 the line. Two of Marnock's species, represented by numerous 

 specimens in unlahelled jars containing such common local rep- 

 tiles as Cnemidophorus gidaris and Phrynosoma comutum, may 

 possibly have been collected in Bexar County but I thought best 

 to put them in the hypothetical list, for the present at least. 



The reader who is not familiar with the frogs and toads 

 listed in the present paper, will find excellent descriptions of 

 all the species in Mary C. Dickerson's "Frog Book", published 

 by Doubleday, Page and Company. The turtles, snakes and 

 lizards are all described in "The Reptile Book" by Raymond L. 

 Ditmars, same publisher. I have included descriptions of the 

 five species of salamanders. 



When I refer to a species as occurring in the vicinity of 

 San Antonio, I mean that it has been found within a distance 

 of five or six miles of the city. In the interest of space, I omit- 

 ted the bibliography. The following works, however, were my 

 most important sources of information in regard to Bexar Coun- 

 ty material collected prior to 1880: 



