MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 27 



REPORT ON THE REPTILES AND AMPHIBIANS. 



By Thomas Barbour. 



The condition of the collection has improved considerably dur- 

 ing the past year. The lizards have been rearranged, the speci- 

 mens entered in a card catalogue, and the jars arranged for 

 convenience, according to the system of Boulenger's British 

 Museum catalogue. 



The collections have increased very materially during the year. 

 Advantageous exchanges have been effected with the Museum of 

 the University of Michigan, with the British Museum, with Mr. 

 Julius Hurter Sr., and with the Academy of Natural Sciences of 

 Philadelphia. 



Acknowledgements are due to Mr. W. M. Mann for tailed 

 Amphibia from Powell County, Montana, while this department 

 has also benefited materially as a result of his successful collecting 

 trip to Haiti; to Prof. E. L. Mark for an excellent series of lizards 

 from Bermuda; to Mr. Samuel Henshaw for species of tailed 

 Amphibia; to Prof. Theodore Lyman for a small collection of rep- 

 tiles and amphibians from the Altai Mountains; to Prof. H. W. 

 Smith for an excellent collection of reptiles and amphibians made 

 by him in the Baram River district of Sarawak; to Prof. W. M. 

 Wheeler for reptiles and amphibians collected by him in Central 

 America; to Prof. A. C. Coolidge for reptiles from the Oasis of 

 Figuig, Algiers; to Prof. J. I. Westengard, for some very desirable 

 species from Bangkok; to Prof. Wily Klikenthal for a collection of 

 European reptiles and amphibians; to Mr. C. F. Batchelder for a 

 collection of reptiles and amphibians made on the islands on the 

 coast of Maine; to Mr. C. T. Ramsden for a large number of 

 extremely rare reptiles and amphibians from eastern Cuba; to 

 Dr. J. C. Phillips for a collection of reptiles and amphibians made 

 by himself and Dr. G. M. Allen in the Dinder River district, East- 

 ern Anglo-Egyptian Sudan; to Dr. R. V. Chamberlin for a fine 

 collection of American reptiles and amphibians made by himself 

 in many interesting localities; to Prof. Roland Thaxter for an 

 important series of reptiles and amphibians from the islands of 

 Grenada and Trinidad. 



