Life History and Ecology of the Five-Lined Skink, Eumeces fasciatusFitch, Henry S. (Henry Sheldon)
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Life History and Ecology of the Five-Lined Skink, Eumeces fasciatus
Fitch, Henry S. (Henry Sheldon)
Eumeces fasciatus
No. 6: Five captures all at different locations, in 23 months; in 1950
on July 27, in 1951 on April 30 and May 25, and in 1952, on May 1 and
June 28. The second, third and fourth locations were all within 45 feet
of each other and of the first, but the last was 110 feet from the
first, possibly representing a shift.
[Illustration: FIG. 23. Sites of successive captures of three marked
adult males in the Skink Woods study-area.]
No. 7: Four captures in two months, at approximately the same place on
May 1 and 5, 1950; on May 30 had moved 35 feet farther north along
ledge, and on July 1, 25 feet farther in the same direction.
No. 8: Four captures in one year, all at approximately the same place
along rock ledge, on June 17, 1949, and April 21, May 3 and June 15,
1950; trapped three times and once caught by hand.
No. 9: Four captures in one year, on April 7 and 11, and July 27, 1950,
and April 14, 1951, the four different locations all within a 30-foot
diameter.
No. 10: Four captures in 22 months, in 1950 on July 7, and again on July
23, 175 feet farther north; on May 25, 1951, 200 feet east of second
location, and on May 2, 1952, 30 feet from third location. At least one
shift in range probably occurred, from 1950 to 1951.
No. 11: Four captures in 36 days, in 1951 on April 30, May 8 and 15, and
June 5. The last two captures were made in the same trap and were only
15 feet from the original location, but the second location was 130 feet
from both. Because the time span was short and the lizard returned from
the most remote point, it seems probable that all four records were
within its home range.
[Illustration: FIG. 24. Sites of successive captures of marked
skinks, a male and two females, in the Skink Woods study-area.]
No. 12: Four captures in 11 months, all within a 50-foot diameter, in
1951, on June 1 and 26, and August 27, and in 1952, on April 29.
No. 13: Four captures in 15 days, all in July 1949 within a 10-foot
diameter.
No. 14: Four captures in 22 months, July 22, 1950 (as subadult), in
1951, on May 8 and June 5, and on May 13, 1952. Second location 295 feet
southwest of first, third 30 feet north of second, and fourth 650 feet
east of second and third. Probably two shifts of range were involved.
ADULT FEMALES
No. 1: Six captures in 26 months; in 1950 at the same place on June 4
and 13, in 1951 on May 26 it had moved from the original quarry ledge
location 680 feet south southeast down the slope to the pond rock pile,
where recaptured on June 9, and in 1952 on May 21 and July 22.
No. 2: Six captures at four locations all within a 25-foot diameter, in
13 months; June 5, 1950, and May 25, June 18, 26 and 29, 1952. On each
occasion this female was hiding in a nest burrow, but she shifted to new
nest sites as a result of disturbance by the investigator or flooding
when there were unusually heavy rains.
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