J. Rodgers - 1940 Emmerich Gilberts Oct. 29 Mrs. Kent Zool, Univ. Calif, Berkeley, Alameda Co., Calif. ? No. 2 Crobed hemipenis 7mm. Head colored about as No. 1; tail red. ♀ No. 13 no red head; no red tail. Oct. 31. 4:50 pm. Yesterday afternoon about this time I put 5 skinks, nos. 22, 18, 2, 1033, 1009 in a cage together. I had heaped the dirt (loam) at one end over a cardboard tunnel that was about 1" above the bottom of the aquarium, about 1 1/4" high, 8" deep, 5" wide at the back and with 1" sq. opening. All the skinks went into this tunnel. There was about 3 1/6" of sand on its floor. Today at that time I found no. 18 buried in the sandy soil on top of the pile of dirt. This morning I noticed a furrow in the shallow soil at the other end of the cage, as if a skink had been trying to dig in. Nov. 1 Last night when I put no. 18 into the tunnel, I pushed enough dirt into the entrance of the tunnel to about half fill it. Up to this time the skinks had left the tunnel wide open. This morning enough more dirt had been pushed into the pile (from inside) to close it. Nov. 3 The skinks came out today and closed the hole after themselves when they went back in. The first time they closed the hole they barely closed it. This time it was more thoroughly plugged. Nov. 4 I opened the hole, took the skinks out, killed one of them (1009) and put them back in. I pushed enough