Today's list contains a number of issues from the Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. In addition, several books are also listed. Please let me know if you would like anything from this list. Breck Achaval, Federico. 2001. Actualización sistemática y mapas de distribución de los reptiles del Uruguay. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (129): 1-37. $5.00 Altig, Ronald and Michael T. Christensen. 1976. A bibliography of tadpole biology. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. 1976 (31): 1-33. bibliography index. $5.00 Altig, Ronald and Ren Lohoefener. 1980. A bibliography of larval and neotenic salamander biology. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. 1980 (47): 1-20. bibliography index. $5.00 Auerbach, Paul S., Howard J. Donner and Eric A. weiss. 2003. Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine, Second Edition. Mosby, Philadelphia, 709 pgs. PB, Has a chapter on Snake and Reptile Bites. $42.95 Auth, David L. 1994. Checklist and bibliography of the amphibians and reptiles of Panama. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. 98: 1-59. $7.00 Bauer, Aaron. 1985. An annotated bibliography of New Caledonian Herpetology. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (66): 15 p. $3.00 Beaman, Kent R., Bradford D. Hollingsworth, Howard E. Lawler and Charles E. Lowe. 1997. Bibliography of Sauromalus (Duméril 1856), the Chuckwallas. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (116): 1-44. $7.00 Blunt, Wilfrid. 1971. The Compleat Naturalist: A Life of Linnaeus. Vking Press, New York, 256 p. Clothbound with a dust jacket. $15.00 Bobrov, Vladimir V. 1995. Checklist and bibliography of the lizards of Vietnam. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (105): 1-28. Cuba, Bibliography. $5.00 Brown, David E. and Neil B. Carmony. 1999. Gila Monster: Facts and Folklore of America's Aztec Lizard. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, x, 129. PB. $4.00 Buffon, George Louis Leclerc Comte de. 1802 (1978). The Natural History of Oviparous Quadrupeds and Serpents. Arno, New York, xliii, 420 p.,15 plates; xvii, 345 ps., 11 plates; x, 383 p., 9 plates; xv, 382 p., 13 plates. 4 volumes bound in 2. $175.00 Burt, William H. and Richard P. Grossenheider. 1976. A Field Guide to the Mammals: Field Marks of all North American species found North of Mexico. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, xxv, 289 p. Clothbound with a dust jacket. $8.00 Busack, Stephen D. (Compiled by). 1969. Bibliography of the Chameleontidae 1864-1964. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (17): 1-13. $5.00 Busack, Stephen D. 1976. Bibliography of North African Herpetology. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (32): 1-21. $5.00 Carpenter, Charles C. 1986. An inventory of combat rituals in snakes. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. 1986 (69): 1-18. index. $4.00 Carpenter, C. C. 1986. An inventory of the display-action-patterns in lizards. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. 68: 1-18. reptiles, behavior, list. $4.00 Cherlin, Vladimir A. 1984. New facts on the taxonomy of snakes of the genus Echis. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (61): 7 p. Translated by F. S. H. Owusu, Edited by B. Hughes and G. R. Zug. $3.00 Cook, William E. and Glenn M. Shea. 1987. Amphibians and reptiles: predators and prey. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (73): 1-15, 1-44. This issue contains two papers. "Amphibians and birds" by William E. Cook, and "Bibliography of herpetological references in Australian ornithological journals" by Glenn M. Shea. $5.00 Corn, Paul Stephen, R. Bruce Bury and Hartwell H. Welsh. 1984. Selected bibliography of Wyoming amphibians and reptiles. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (59): 34 p. $5.00 Crombie, Ronald I. 1994. Herpetological publications of the National Museum of Natural History (USNM), 1853-1994. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. 101: 1-40. $5.00 Crouse, Deborah T. 1984. Incidental capture of sea turtles by commercial fisheries. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. 1984 (62): 1-8. mortality. $4.00 Crumly, Charles R. 1988. A nomenclatural history of tortoises (Family Testudinidae). Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (75): 1-17. bibliography. $3.00 Darevskii, Ilja S. and S. Kadarsan. 1965. On the Biology of the giant Indonesian monitor lizard (Varanus komodoensis Ouwens). Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (2): 1-6. Translated by Z. Knowles. $5.00 Das, Indraneil and Romulus Whitaker. 1996. Bibliography of the king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah). Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (108): 1-24. $5.00 Desroches, Jean-François and David Rodrigue. 2004. Amphibiens et Reptiles du Québec et des Maritimes. Éditions Michel Quintin, Waterloo, 288 p. PB. $28.00 Dodd, C. Kenneth, Jr. 1979. A bibliography of endangered and threatened amphibians and reptiles in the United States and its territories (conservation, distribution, natural history, status). Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. 1979 (46): 1-35. Alligator mississippiensis ambystoma macrodactylum croceum amevia polops anolis roosevelti batrachoseps aridus bufo exul houstonensis caretta chelonia mydas chrysemys rubiventris bangsi crocodylus acutus novaeguineae mindorensis crotalus willardi obscur. $5.00 Dodd, C. K. 1981. A bibliography of endangered and threated amphibians and reptiles in the United States and its territories (conservation, distribution, natural history, status): Supplement. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (49): 1-16. literature, reptiles, amphibians. $4.00 Dodd, C. Kenneth, Jr. 1982. A controversy surrounding an endangered species listing: The case of the Illinois mud turtle. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. 1982 (55): 1-22. $4.00 Dowling, Herndon G. 1957. Amphibians and Reptiles in Arkansas. Occasional Papers of the University of Arkansas Museum. (3): 1-51. $9.00 Dowling, Herndon G. and Janann V. Jenner. 1988. Snakes of Burma: Checklist of reported species & bibliography. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. 1988 (76): 1-19. classification systematics. $4.00 Enge, Kevin N. and C. Kenneth Dodd, Jr. 1986. A bibliography of the herpetofauna of Florida. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. 1986 (72): 1-68. $6.00 Ernst, Carl H. and Evelyn M. Ernst. 2003. Snakes of the United States and Canada. Smithsonian, Washington, DC, xii, 668 p. HB. $70.00 Etheridge, Richard E. and Robert E. Espinoza. 2000. Taxonomy of the Liolaeminae (Squamata: Iguania: Tropiduridae) and a semi-annotated bibliography. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (126): 1-64. $5.00 Feder, Martin E., James F. Lynch, H. Bradley Shaffer and David B. Wake. 1982. Field body temperatures of tropical and temperate zone salamanders. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (52): 1-23. $5.00 Fong G., Ansel and Nils Navarro. 2001. Checklist of amphibians and reptiles of the Sagua-Baracoa Mountains, Eastern Cuba. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (130): 1-13. $3.00 Francis, Mary Evans. 1920. The Book of Grasses: An illustrated guide to the common grasses, and the most common of the rushes and sedges. Doubleday, Page & Co,, Garden City, xvi, 351 p. HB, Dj, Dust jacket torn in several places $20.00 Haeckel, Ernst. 1904. The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosphy. Watts & Co., London, xiv, 501 p. Clothbound. $30.00 Harter, Jim. 1979. Animals: 1,419 Compyright-free Illustrations of Mammals, Birds, Fish, Insects, etc.: A Pictorial Archive from Nineteenth-Century Sources. Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 283 p. Paperback. $15.00 HImmelman, John. 2006. Discovering Amphibians: Frogs and Salamanders of the Northeast. Down East, Camden, 208. PB. $18.95 Huang, Yong-Zhao, Liang Fei and Chang-Yuan Ye. 1998. Translations of "Two new species of amphibians in Tibet', and "Description of two new species of the genus Megophrys". Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (118): 3-11, 12-20. Translated by Chun-mei Huang and edited by Amy Lathrop and Robert Murphy. $4.00 Hulse, Arthur C. 1988. Bibliography of Dipsosaurus dorsalis. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (74): 1-25. index. $4.00 Iverson, John B. and Shelia A. Iverson. 1980. A bibliography to the mud and musk turtle family Kinosternidae. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (48): 1-72. claudius staurotypus kinosternon bibliography index sternotherus. $8.00 Iverson, J. B. 1992. Species richness maps of the freshwater and terrestrial turtles of the world. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (88): 1-18. turtles, species richness, geographic, distribution. $3.00 Jackson, Marie E. 1811. Sketches of the Physiology of Vegetable Life. John Hatchard, London, xii, 172 p. 14 plates. Half calf with marbled boards and five raised bands. Label with gilt title., minor foxing and wear, a very good copy. $135.00 Jacobs, George J. 1983. Bibliography of the agamid genus Draco. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. 1983 (57): 1-31. index. $6.00 Keiser, Edmund D. 1991. Bibliography of the genus Oxybelis Wagler (Serpentes: Colubridae). Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. 86: 1-45. $5.00 Kluge, Arnold G. 1991. Checklist of gekkonoid lizards. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. 1991 (85): 1-35. $8.00 Koshikawa, Akihiro. 1982. Three new species of reptiles from Hainan Island, Guangdong Province. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (53): 1-18 Xenopeltis hainanesis sp. nov., Dinodon rosozonatum sp. nov., Achalinus hainanus sp. nov. $4.00 Kuzmin, Sergius L. 1994. Bibliography of the Siberian newt (Salamandrella keyserlingii Dybowski, 1870). Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (102): 1-53. $7.00 Landry, Judith L. 1979. A bibliography of the bog turtle, Clemmys muhlenbergii (biology, ecology and distribution). Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. 1979 (44): 1-21. $5.00 Lang, Mathias. 1992. A review of techniques for marking snakes. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (90): 1-19. $4.00 Liner, Ernest A., Clarence Jack McCoy and David L. Auth. 1993. Biographical sketch and bibliography of Wilfred T. Neill. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. 95: 1-24. $4.00 Liner, Ernest A. and Harlan D. Walley. 1997. Bibliography and scientific name index to amphibians and reptiles in the Southwestern Naturalist volumes 1–40, 1956-1995. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (117): 1-69. Bibliography. $6.00 Liner, Ernest A. 2000. Type descriptions and type publications of Hobart M. Smith, 1933 through June 1999. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (127): 1-25. $4.00 Maclean, William P., Richard Kellner and Howard Dennis. 1977. Island lists of West Indian amphibians and reptiles. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (40): 1-47. $5.00 MartÃn, José and Pilar López. 1990. Amphibians and reptiles as prey of birds in southwestern Europe. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. 1990 (82): 1-43. index predators. $7.00 McCoy, C. J. and Jeffrey Howard Black. 1974. Arthur Norris Bragg (1897-1968) biography and bibliography. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (27): 1-6. $4.00 McCranie, J. R. and L. D. Wilson. 1990. Annotated checklist to the herpetofauna of the pine-oak woodlands of the Sierra Occidental, Mexico. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (84): 1-16. Mexico, herps, reptiles, amphibians, checklist. $3.00 Mijareso-Urrutia, Abraham and Alexis Arends R. 2000. Herpetofauna of Estado Falcón, Northwestern Venezuela: A checklist with geographical date and ecological data. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (123): 1-30. $5.00 Mijaria Uriona, Jimmy. 2001. Ofidios en la Amazonia Boliviana: Culebras, Viboras, Serpientes. Sagitario, La Paz, 156 p. $30.00 Mitchell, Joseph C. 1981. A bibliography of Virginia amphibians and reptiles. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. 1981 (50): 1-51. $8.00 Mitchell, Joseph C. and George R. Zug. 1995. Keys to the known amphibians and reptiles of the Royal Chitwan National Park, Nepal. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (106): 1-15. Nepal; Key. $4.00 Mivart, St. George. 1898. The Cat: An Introduction to the Study of Backboned Animals, Especially Mammals. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, xxiii, 557 p., 200 Illustrations. W. H. F. Addison's copy - professor of histology and embryology at the University of Pennsylvania. Two pages of Addison's notes in the back. Rear hinge coming loose. $55.00 Morrison, Clare. 2003. A Field Guide to the Herpetofauna of Fiji. Institute of Applied Sciences, The University of the South Pacific, Suva, 122 p. PB. $20.00 Nuñez, Herman. 1992. Geographical data of Chilean lizards and snakes in the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural Santiago, Chile. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (91): 1-29. $5.00 Paukstis, Gary L. and Fredric J. Janzen. 1990. Sex determination in reptiles: summary of effects of constant temperatures of incubation of sex ratios of offspring. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (83): 1-28. $5.00 Paxton, James. 1826. Illustrations of Paley's Natural Theology; with Descriptive Letter Press. J. Vincent, Oxford, (8), 36 plates with descriptions and index. Contemporary cloth, About half of the plates depict human anatomy, the remaining plates depect plants and animals, including two reptiles - a viper head and a chameleon. $175.00 Pough, F. Harvey. 1979. Summary of Oxygen transport characteristics of Reptilian blood. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (45): 1-14. $3.00 Price, Andrew H. 1983. Annotated bibliography of the Genus Cnemidophorus in New Mexico. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (58): 92 pgs. $10.00 Raffaelli, Jean. 2007. Les Urodeles du Monde. Penclen Edition, vi, 378 p. PB, An excellent compilation of information on the salamanders of the world. With 515 photographs and 511 maps. $90.00 Renjifo, Juan Manuel and Mikael Lundberg. 1999. GuÃa de campo Anfibios y Reptiles de Urrá. Skanska, MedellÃn, Colombia, 96 p. PB. $19.95 Rivalta González, Vilma. 2000. Checklist and bibliography of Cuban amphibians (Anura). Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (124): 1-30. 1-20. $4.00 Rivero, Juan A. and Harold Heatwole. 1979. Herpetogeography of Puerto Rico VI. A bibliography of the herpetology of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. 1979 (43): 1-17. bibliography index. $5.00 RodrÃguez Schettino, Lourdes. 1995. Checklist and bibliography (1837-1991) of Cuban iguanid lizards. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (103): 1-29. Cuba; Bibliography. $4.00 RodrÃguez Schettino, Lourdes. 2000. Cuban reptiles: original citations, holotypes, and geographic range. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (125): 1-26. $4.00 Salvador, Alfredo. 1996. Amphibians of Northwest Africa. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (109): 1-41. North Africa, Amphibians, Key, Distribution. $6.00 Schwartz, Frank J. 1967. Maryland Turtles. University of Maryland, Natural Resources Institute, Solomons, 38 p. $10.00 Simkin, G. N. and V. D. Il'ichev. 1967. Geographical voice variability in animals as an ecological and evolutionary problem. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (8): 1-13. Translated from Russian to English. $5.00 Somma, Louis A. 1990. A categorization and bibliographic survey of parental behavior in Lepidosaurian reptiles. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (81): 1-53. $8.00 Stewart, M. M. and L. F. Biuso. 1982. A bibliography of the greenfrog, Rana clamitans Lateille 1801-1981. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (56): 1-53. $6.00 Stugren, Bogdan. 1966. Considerations concerning the variability of Amphibians and Reptiles. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (6): 1-9. Translated by James A. Peters. $4.00 Sukhanov, R. B. 1976. Some problems of the phylogeny and systematics of lacertilia. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (38): 1-15. Translated by SCINTRAN, edited by Scott Moody and George R. Zug. $3.00 Thireau, Michel. 1991. Types and historically important specimens of rattlesnakes inthe Muséum National D'Historie Naturelle (Paris). Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (87): 1-10. $4.00 Torres-Carvajal, Omar. 2001. Lizards of Ecuador: checklist, distribution and systematic references. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (131): 1-35. $5.00 Ulber, Thomas M. 1999. Sir Andrew Smith's "Illustrations of the Zoology of South Africa" an annotated table of contents for the "Reptilia" volume. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (120): 1-17. $4.00 Van Fleet, Walter. 1888. Some Native Birds for Little Folks. Forest & Streem Pub. Co., New York, 147 p, 14 engravings. Illustrated by Howard H. Darnell. 8, elaborate engraved title page, printed in blue. 14 engravings of the birds discussed in the chapters. Publisher's light blue cloth, decorated in gilt, with added black decorations on covers; some marginal foxing affected a few plates, generally very good; contemporary pencil inscription, "Miss Edith J. Peer, Aug. 1890," on free endpaper. Scarce introduction to ornithology for children containing chapters on 14 birds. In the introduction the author explains that this book will introduce his young readers to varieties, species and families of birds, and encourages them to ask their parents and teachers to explain words and terms used in the book which they don't understand. $95.00 Van Peenen, P. F. D., P. F. Ryan and R. H. Lght. 1969. Preliminary Identification Manual for Mammals of South Vietnam. United States National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., vi, 310 p. $30.00 Vanzolini, P. E. 1994. On the distribution of certain South American turtles (Testudines: Testudidae & Chelidae). Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (97): 1-10. $3.00 Vigle, Gregory O. and Harold Heatwole. 1978. A bibliography of the Hydrophiidae. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. 1978 (41): 1-20. bibliography index. $5.00 Vogel, Gernot. 2006. Venomous Snakes of Asia. Giftschlangen Asiens. Edition Chimaira, Frankfurt, 148 p. HB, in English and German. $59.95 Vorob´eva, E. I. 1968. On the mono- or polyphyletic origin of tetrapods. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (12): 1-8. Translated by Frederick W. Ryan, edited by Bruce B. Collette and James A. Peters. $4.00 Walley, Harlan D. 1993. Bibliography of the genus Takydromus (Lacertilia: Lacertidae). Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (96): 1-35. $4.50 Walley, Harlan D. 2000. Bibliography and scientific name index to amphibians and reptiles in the Occasional Papers of the Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, numbers 1-180, 1971-1995. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (128): 1-45. $6.00 Watermolen, Dreux J. 1993. A bibliography of children's literature and educational resources on amphibians and reptiles. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. 1993 (93): 1-11. $3.00 Watermolen, Dreux J. 1996. Bibliography and indices to the herpetological papers published in freshwater biology and limnology journals 1950–1995. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (111): 1-9. $5.00 Wayne, Arthur Trezevant. 1910. Birds of South Carolina. Contributions from the Charleston Museum, Charleson, 1 map, xxi, 254 p., Corrigenda. Very clean, leather binding with 4 raised bands. $175.00 Wilson, Larry David. 1999. Checklist and key to the species of the genus Tantilla (Serpentes: Colubridae), with some commentary on distribution. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (122): 34 p. $6.00 Zhao, Ermi and Jiang Yaoming. 1986. Key to the snakes and lizards of China. Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (71): 1-21. $5.00 Zhou, Kai-ya, Yue-zhen Liu and De-jun Li. 1989. Three new species of Gekko and remarks on Gekko hokouensis (Lacertiformes, Gekkonidae). Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (77): 1-10. $4.00 Zhou, Kai-ya, Yue-zhen Liu and Guang-ping Yang. 1996. Three new subspecies of Hemiphyllodactylus yunnanensis (Boulenger) from China (Lacertiformes: Gekkonidae). Smithsonian Herpetological Information Service. (110): 1-8. $4.00 |