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Show Utah Academy 100 of Sciences, Arts and Letters worth, May 15, 1937; Right Fork of Deadman Canyon, very June 6, 1937; Elmo (Emery County), May 1, 1937. [Vol. XV, numerous, Uta, Uta stansburiana stansburiana Baird and Girard. Usually on slopes of rocky hillsides. Collected: Sunnyside, May 1936' Price, September, 1936, April 9, April 24, and October 25, 1937;' Kenil worth, May. 1937. Stejneger's Blue-bellied Lizard, Sceloporus elongatus Stejneger. Common Often it may be in junipers and pinons of the mesas north of Price. seen sitting on a branch snapping at passing insects Collected: Farnham Dome, ten miles east of Price, April 10, 1937; Pnce, May 15, June 10 and October 5, 1?37; Kenilworth, May 20, 1937; Deadman Canyon, June 6, 1937; Sunnyside, September 1935; Columbia, September 1935; No.2 Canyon near Sunnyside, July 29, 1937. Sagebrush Lizard, Sceloporus graciosus graciosus Baird and Girard. Com Collected: Sunnyside, September 1935; 'Columbia, September 1935; mon. Price, September 1936; Price, March 26, 1937 (Emerged from hiberna tion). April 17, May 2R and June 3, 1937; Kenilworth, May 18, 1937. Female collected May 20, 1937 at Price contained six eggs nearly ready for deposition. Only young lizards were collected October 15, 1937. Girard's Short-horned Horned Lizard, Phrynosoma douglassi ornatissimum Girard. Emerged from hibernation about April 10 at Price. Collected: Mud Springs, 10 miles south of Sunnyside, May 1, 1937; Price, May 15 and September 27, 1937; near Kenilworth, May, 1937. Desert Whip tail Lizard, Cnemidophorus tessellatus tessellatus (Say). Not Collected by Seville Flowers in Carbon County north of common. Mounds, Utah. and by George Knowlton on June 18, 1933 five miles east of Wellington. Fond Western Striped Racer, Masticophis taeniatus taeniatus (Hallowell). Collected: On rocky slopes and of English sparrows when in captivity. shadscale flats near Price May 2, 1937 (Common); Spring Canyon, June, 1937. 1937; Sunnyside, October, 1935; Kenilworth, May 28, A Great Basin Gopher Snake, Pituophis catenifer deserticola Stejneger. A common species used as 1937. a in 18, laid six June cage eggs captive Collected: Pair food by the Red-tailed Hawk, Buteo borealis calurus. 1935; Columbia at tree Junction utahensis September climbing luniperis Castle October and 20 1937; 24, Sunnyside, May 2, 1936; Price, May 1937. Gate, May 20, 1937; Hiawatha, May 1937; Standardville, May and Girard). (Baird gentilis Western King Snake, Lompropeltis triangulum collector. Another Near Kenilworth, May 16, 1927, Dr. Seville Flowers, from Helper. specimen came from near Columbia. Reported Cope .. A Hypsiglena Snake, ochrorhynhus ochorhynchus Spotted Night Seville Dr. rn 1935. Columbia near early collected small specimen was Road northeast Common found . . . Deadman Flowers collected one in the shadscale area near at Price. River May 25, 1937, Price near rubbish of Price and another in Rock Wren, Salpinctus I was attracted by the excited actions of a Common been exRemoving the rock around which it had obsoletus obsoletus. was On Max 29 al!0ther. "citedly scolding, I uncovered a night snake. pIgmy the of pinon-juniper the at rock a edge found nearby beneath northwest of Price. forest. This was on the edge of a mesa were caged. They ate Sagebrush, Common These last two specimens Lizards. Both the night snakes and Uta, Cliff Uta and small Blue-bellied a Common Uta as a food from the selected snakes the wandering garter unkeeled their because of scales. cage full of many species, probably The lizards they restless. The first few days the snakes were very without digestion having taken ate were voided passing completely through the daytime, often climbing the during about cage place. They wndered The food more at home. seemed After June 5 they up the sides. high |
