AMPHIBIANS AND KEPTILES FEOM SOUTHERN PERU COLLECTED BY THE PERUVIAN EXPEDITION OF 1914-1915 UNDER THE AUSPICES OF YALE UNIVERSITY AND THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY. By Thomas Barbour and G. K. Noble, Of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mr. Edmund Heller, who was engaged as naturalist by the Peru-Wan Expedition of 191-lr-1915 under the auspices of Yale University and the National Geographic Society to southern Peru, collected a number of amphibians and reptiles. While Mr. Heller's primary interests were mammals and birds, nevertheless he secured some in-teresting lower vertebrates. Not a few of these, notably the Teiids, were caught in his cyclone traps set for small rodents. Unless other-wise mentioned all of the specimens considered here were collected by Mr. Heller. There is considerable diversity of usage in the spelling of some of the place names. For example, Machu Picchu is sometimes and probably correctly spelled Macchu Picchu. In this paper we have followed the spelling used on a map compiled for the expedition by A. H. Bumstead, C. F. Maynard, and others. It is a pleasure to thank Dr. Hiram Bingham, leader of the expedi-tion, and the authorities of the National Geographic Society and of the United States National Museum for the privilege of studying and reporting upon this collection. By the articles of agreement under which the collections were made they become the property of the United States National Museum. A series of duplicates has, however, been added to the collections of the Museum of Compara-tive Zoology by j)ermission. Class AMPHIBIA. 1. BUFO MARINUS (Linnaeus). Three half -grown specimens (U.S.N.M. Nos. 60802-4) from San Miguel bridge over the Urubamba River, near the ruins of Machu Picchu, altitude 6,000 feet, July 2, 1915 ; another half-grown speci-men (U.S.N.M. No. 60750) from the Cosireni River, August, 1915; Proceedings U. S. National Museum. Vol. 58-No. 2352. 181404— 21— Proc.N.IM.vol.58— 39 609
Amphibians and reptiles from southern Peru collected by the Peruvian expedition of 1914-1915 under the auspices of Yale University and the National Geographic Society
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