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Excerpt from Reptiles and Amphibians of Texas, Vol. 18 Hockley, Yoakum, Hill, Kaufman, Lampasas, Hale, Potter, Sherman, Lubbock, Crosby, Kendall and Kent counties. In the literature cited in my bibliography, specimens are on record from the following counties not above mentioned Anderson, Aransas, Atascosa, Bastrop, Baylor, Borden, Bowie, Brazoria, Clay, Comanche, Cooke, Crane, Crockett, Dallas, Denton, De Witt, Donley, Duval, Edwards, Erath, Fayette, Galveston, Gillespie, Guadalupe, Hardeman, Har din, Harrison, Haskell, Hemphill, Hidalgo, Hood, Houston, Howard, Kerr, Lavaca, Lamb, La Salle, Lipscomb, Marion, Mason, Maverick, Menard, Mitchell, Oldham, Reeves, Rob erts, Shelby, Starr, Sutton, Swisher, Tom Green, Tyler, Upshur, Uvalde, Val Verde, Walker, Ward, Washington, Webb, Wheeler, Wichita, Williamson and Wood. When one takes into consideration the fact that during the past twenty years I have collected more than 80 species and subspecies in my own county, he can readily understand that this is due entirely to the reason that I have collected very closely, searching every possible habitat for species that I had not previously found. On several occasions I have collected specimens of reptiles, not found, so far as I had been able to discover, within my own county, only a mile or two over the line in the next one. The great ma j ority of cold-blooded animals have special habitats. Due to abundance or lack of moisture, to the peculiar physical con formation of the region, to the presence of lagoons, marshes and streams; in some cases due to a food supply governed by the presence of certain insects and the plants on which they feed, and on many other conditions that might be here mentioned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
