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Eastern North America 
Conant, Roger. 1958. A field guide to reptiles and amphibians of the United States and 
Canada east of the 100th Meridian. Houghton, Mifflin Co., Boston. 
Western North America 
Stebbens, Robert C. 1951. The amphibians of western North America. University of 
California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles. 
Stebbens, Robert C. 1954. Amphibians and reptiles of western North America. McGraw- 
Hill Book Co., Inc. 
Special Groups 
Snakes 
Schmidt, Karl P., and D. Dwight Davis. 1941. Field Book of snakes of the United States 
and Canada. G. P. Putman’s Sons, New York. 
Wright, Albert Hazen, and Anna Allen Wright. 1957. Handbook of snakes of the United 
States and Canada. Comstock Pub. Associates, Ithaca, N.Y. 
Klauber, Laurence M. 1956. Rattlesnakes: their habits, life histories and influence on 
mankind. (2 vols.) University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles. 
Lizards 
Smith, Hobart M. 1946. Handbook of lizards. Comstock Pub. Company, Ithaca, N.Y. 
Turtles 
Carr, Archie. 1952. Handbook of turtles of the United States, Canada and Baja Cali- 
fornia. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y. 
Pope, Clifford H. 1939. Turtles of the United States and Canada. Alfred A. Knopf, 
New York and London. 
Frogs 
Wright, Albert Hazen, and Anna Allen Wright. 1949. Handbook of Frogs and Toads of 
the LTnited States and Canada. Third Ed. Comstock Pub. Associates Inc., Ithaca, 
N.Y. 
Salamanders 
Bishop, Sherman C. 1947. Handbook of salamanders. Comstock Pub. Associates Inc., 
Ithaca, N.Y. 
Check-List (North America) and Catalogue 
Schmidt, Karl P. 1953. A check-list of North American amphibians and reptiles. 
Sixth ed. Am. Soc. of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Univ. of Chicago Press. 
Riemer, William J. 1963 et seq. Catalogue of American amphibians and reptiles. 
Am. Soc. of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Bethseda, Maryland. 
General 
Cochran, Doris M. 1961. Living Amphibians of the W T orld. Doubleday and Company 
Inc., Garden City, N.Y. 
Goin, Coleman J., and Olive B. Goin. 1963. Introduction to Herpetology. W. H. 
Freeman and Company, San Francisco and London. 
Mertens, Robert. 1960. The world of amphibians and reptiles. George G. Harrap and 
Company Ltd., London, [translated by H. W. Parker.] 
Noble, G. Kinsley. 1931. The biology of the amphibia. McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc. 
[Reprint, Dover Pub. Inc., 1954 ] 
Oliver, James A. 1955. The natural history of North American amphibians and reptiles. 
Van Nostrand Company Inc., Princeton, N.Y. 
Schmidt, Karl P., and Robert F. Inger. 1957. Living reptiles of the world. Hanover 
House, Garden City, N.Y. 
Common Names 
Committie. 1956. Common names for North American amphibians and reptiles. 
Copeia 1956 (3) :1 72-1 85. 
Periodicals in Herpetology 
Copeia. Published by the Am. Soc. of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists. Write: Dr. 
James A. Peters, Secretary, Division of Herpetology, United States Nat. Mus., 
Washington 25, D.C. 
Herpetologica. Published by the Herpetologists League. Write: Dr. Frederick B. Turner, 
Secretary-Treasurer, Laboratory of Nuclear Medicine and Radiation Biology, 
University of California, Los Angeles, California, 90024. 
