15-20,  1  figure  in  text.     October,  1916 05

5.  Habits  and  Food  of  the  Roadrunner  in  California,  by  Harold  C.  Bryant

Pp.  21-58,  plates  1-4,  2  figures  in  text.    October,  1916 35

6.  Description  of  Bufo  canorus.  a  New  Toad  from  the  Yosemite  National  Park,

by  Charles  Lewis  Camp.    Pp.  59-62,  4  figures  in  text.    November,  1916 05

7.  The  Subspecies  of  Sceloponts  ovcidentalis.  with  Description  of  a  New  Form

from   the   Sierra   Nevada   and   Systematic   Notes    on    Other    California
Lizards,  by  Charles  Lewis  Camp.    Pp.  63-74.    December,  1916 _..      .10

8.  Osteological  Relationships  of  Three   Species   of  Beavers,   by  F.   Harvey

Holden.    Pp.  75-114,  plates  5-12,  18  text  figures.    March,  1917 40

9.  Notes  on  the  Systematic  Status  of  the  Toads  and  Frogs  of  California,  by

Charles  Lewis  Camp.    Pp.  115-125,  3  text  figures.    February,  1917 10

10.  A  Distributional  List  of  the  Amphibians  and  Reptiles  of  California,  by
Joseph  Grinnell  and  Charles  Lewis  Camp.  Pp.  127-208,  14  figures  in  text.
July  1917  *^


UNIVERSITY    OF    CALIFORNIA     PUBLICATIONS

IN

ZOOLOGY

Vol.  19,  No.  13,  pp.  403-470,  plates  29-33,  2  text  figures        October  23,  1920


DEMONSTRATION  OF  THE  FUNCTION  OF

TIIK  NKU.'O.MOTOU  A  IM'A  U'ATTS  IN

BUPLOTES   IJV  TIIK  MKTIIOI)

OF  MI(M?()I)ISSK(TION

BY

CHARLES  V.  TAYLOR


CONTENTS

I'ACiE

Introduction

Acknowledgments  -..
