Tropidoclonion lineatum (Hallowell) 
Thamnophis sauritus proximus (Say) 
Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis (Linnaeus) 
Tantilla gracilis Baird and Girard 
A. I. ORTENBURGER 
Museum of Zoology, 
Univ. of Oklahoma. 
A NOTE ON ANNIELLA NIGRA FISCHER 
During a recent stay in Pacific Grove, Monterey 
County, California, advantage was taken of an ex- 
ceptionally low tide (Feb. 22, 1929) to investigate the 
fauna about the rocks off Lighthouse Point (Point 
Pinos). All the rocks could be reached without wading 
except one quite far out. At high tide the water com- 
pletely insolates these rocks from all mainland con- 
nections. About two hundred feet or more from the 
mainland is a small islet, a level plateau about fifty 
by sixty feet and perhaps eight or nine feet above 
high tide line. Although never submerged it is subject 
to the spray from the breakers. There are no trees or 
shrubs on it, only grass and very low growing plants 
such as the common "loco weed". The northern 
portion is covered by an old shellmound of at least 
two feet in thickness. Just how long this islet has 
been cut off from the mainland is not known. 
It was while kicking around in the surface debris 
of this shellmound that a specimen of Anniella nigra, 
the black legless lizard, was discovered. Further 
search was made but no other specimen was to be 
found at that time. There is no doubt but that there 
are other individuals on the islet and future search 
may find them. 
This record extends the range of this species from 
the mainland to an isolated islet, although the dis- 
tance involved is perhaps not more than two hundred 
feet. 
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