PROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES FOURTH SERIES Vol. XXXVI, No. 10, pp. 279-316; 5 figs. April 10, 1969 REPORT ON A COLLECTION OF AMPHIBIANS AND REPTILES FROM AFGHANISTAN By Richard J. Clark, Erica D. Clark, Palio Limatii, Spetsai, Greece, and Steven C. Anderson, Alan E. Leviton California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco 94118 Introduction Afghanistan is a country which remains poorly known zoologically, and publications dealing with the herpetofauna are relatively few. The limitations of our knowledge of the herpetology of Afghanistan are emphasized by the fact that the present collection, the largest thus far reported from this land-locked country, is the result of the first trip to Afghanistan with herpetology as the primary objective. In the summer of 1964, the senior authors (RJC, EDC) visited Afghanistan with the intention of making as extensive a herpetological collection as possible and recording as many ecological observations as circumstances would permit. They are responsible in this paper for the section on physiography and general itinerary and for all ecological observations cited in the text as well as color descriptions of living animals, though the junior authors revised and rearranged material to conform to the needs of the manuscript. The bulk of the collection was sent to the California Academy of Sciences for study and permanent deposition. A selection of specimens was retained by the senior authors as noted in the text under "Additional material: RJC. . ." These specimens were not seen by the junior authors (SCA, AEL). The [279] Marine P^ Laboratory L R Y APR 2 2 1969
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