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
[Illustration: FIG. 25. Sites of successive captures of a marked
male and a marked female, each taken in three different years
in the Skink Woods study-area.]
No. 3: Five captures in 34 months, all within a radius of a few yards,
at the pond rock pile, on August 8, 1949, June 5 and July 23, 1951, and
May 15 and June 4, 1952.
No. 4: Four captures in 34 months, all within a radius of a few yards at
the pond rock pile, on August 8, 1949, June 7, 1950, May 30, 1951 and
May 21, 1952. It is notable that this female was taken only once in
each of four different years, her occupancy of this rock pile seemingly
continuing throughout the duration of the study.
No. 5: Four captures in two months, in 1950 on April 15, and on April 26
had moved 50 feet south; on May 23 she was approximately 50 feet from
both second and third locations, and on June 5 was between second and
third locations.
No. 6: Four captures in 23 months, all within a 20-foot stretch of
ledge, in 1950 on June 5 and 17, in 1951 on August 22, and in 1952 on
May 1.
No. 7: Four captures in one year, in 1951 on May 19, June 12, June 24,
and in 1952 on May 21, all four locations within a 15-foot diameter.
No. 8: Four captures in 23 months, in 1950 on July 5 (as a subadult), in
1951 on August 6 and 15, and in 1952 on May 28, all within a radius of a
few yards at the pond rock pile.
No. 9: Four captures in 13 months, on August 2 and 3, 1951, and May 28
and August 31, 1952. From the original location successive sites were 30
feet southwest, 20 feet south southwest, and 30 feet north.
YOUNG
No. 1: (male) Five captures in 33-1/2 months; marked as hatchling on
July 13, 1949, and recaptured on June 1, 1950, 175 feet northwest down
slope. Subsequent locations of this lizard, as an adult, were, in 1951,
on August 21 and 24, and 1952 on May 1, 80 feet east, 80 feet east, and
70 feet northeast from the second location.
No. 2: (male) Five captures in a little more than one year, all within a
radius of a few yards at the pond rock pile, in 1949 on August 23, and
in 1950 on June 7, July 23, August 19, and September 3.
No. 4: (male) Four captures in 11 months all within a 30-foot stretch
along the ledge, in 1950 on July 4, and in 1951 on May 6, 14, and 25.
No. 5: (male) Four captures in one year, in 1950 on September 4, and in
1951 on May 11, June 14, and August 21; the first and last locations
were together separated from the second and third, also together, by
about 20 feet.
No. 6: (male) Four captures in 13 months, in 1950 on April 19, June 5
and June 6, and in 1951 on May 14. All four locations were linearly
distributed along the ledge, the second and third near together 30 feet
north of the first and the fourth 30 feet south of the first.
No. 7: (sex undetermined) Four captures in one month, on April 24, and
May 2, 4, and 21, 1952, well scattered within a 70-foot diameter.
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