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53. Sceloporus occidentalis B. & G. Occidental wave-lined 
lizard. 
Hab., California. 
Nine specimens of this lizard were received from 
Oakland, Gal., on October 5th. Alcoholic speci- 
mens are hardly distinguishable from the com- 
mon species of the eastern States (*S'. undulatus), 
but in life the color characters are enough to mark 
them at a glance. 
54. Sceloporus torquatus poinsdti B. & G. Poinsett's scaly 
lizard. 
Hab., southwestern United States. 
Four specimens from Pecos. Presented by Mr. E. 
Meyenberg, and a number of others purchased. 
55. Phrynosoma douglassi (Bell.) Douglass' horned lizard. 
Hab., western United States. 
A specimen of the form of this lizard known as P. d. 
hernandezi (Girard) was collected by Dr. Henry 
Skinner, of the Academy of Natural Sciences, 
at Tapello, New Mexico, at an altitude of ten 
thousand feet. At the same locality Dr. Skin- 
ner procured a smooth green snake {Liopeltis ver- 
nalis). 
Another horned lizard, received from an unknown 
locality in the West, presents the characters assigned 
to the subspecies P. d. orncdissimum (Girard). 
56. Phrynosoma blainvillei Gray. Blainville's horned lizard. 
Hab., southern California. 
Six specimens. Purchased June 1st. 
It is interesting to remark that it is this species which 
has been credited with the habit of voluntarily 
ejecting blood from the vessels of the eye. While 
this curious performance has not been actually wit- 
nessed among those exhibited in the collection, a 
small jet of blood has on several occasions been 
observed on the wire back of their cage and on the 
tiled wall behind it, which had evidently proceeded 
in some manner from the lizards. 
