[128] Notes on the following topics mentioned in this chapter may be found in Nuttall's Journal, volume xiii of our series: Verdigris River (note 193), Hugh Glenn (35), Neosho River (192), Illinois River (189).—Ed.
[129] See reprint of Nuttall's Journal, in our volume xiii, pp. 243, 244.—Ed.
[130] Agama collaris.—Scales of the back, neck, and head beneath, anterior legs, and superior and posterior portions of the posterior legs, small, slightly convex, mutic, rounded, or a little oblong, obsoletely arranged in transverse lines; those of the abdomen and breast larger, slightly hexagonal or quadrate, and distinctly arranged in transverse lines; those of the tail rather smaller than the abdominal ones, arranged in bands, quadrate, mutic towards the tip of the tail, oblong, carinated, and acute; front, middle of the head, vertex, and anterior portion of the inferior jaw, with scales approaching the size of plates; colour, back with five or six dusky, broad bands, alternating with narrow fulvous bands, which have each a series of yellow or cinereous spots; a few spots are also scattered on the dusky bands; sides greenish-yellow; sides of the neck fulvous, more or less varied with brilliant vermilion red, a deep black band, and another on the shoulder, both obsolete above, and terminating near the anterior legs; beneath pale; posterior thighs with a series of pores; eyes silvery, pupil round, black; tail long, tapering, cylindrical. Length from nose to cloaca 4 inches, tail 5⅖ inches. A specimen is deposited in the Philadelphia museum.—James.
[131] Bayou Menard (Manard) is a small stream which flows into the Arkansas three or four miles below the Neosho. A short distance above its mouth it unites with Four Mile Creek. The town of Manard is now situated on its east bank.—Ed.
[132] The name Greenleaf Bayou is still borne by this stream, but on many maps it is marked Gruitch (or Grautch) Creek. The town of Bluffs, on the Iron Mountain Railroad, stands near its mouth, which is about twenty miles below the Neosho.—Ed.
[133] Mygale avicularia.—James.
[134] See our reprint, p. 180.—Ed.
[135] The name of Bayou Viande (meaning Meat Bayou) has been corrupted to Vine Creek.—Ed.
[136] This is the correct orthography; the meaning is, more accurately, Salted Meat Bayou. See Nuttall's Journal, note 187.—Ed.
[137] Ixodes molestus.—Body reddish brown, punctured, orbicular very slightly approaching ovate; scutus rounded or sub-angular, hardly attaining the middle of the body, and with two distinct, indented, longitudinal lines; tergum, with about four dilated, black, distinct radii behind the middle; margin from near the middle of the side, with ten or twelve impressed, acute, equal, equidistant lines, which do not crenate the edge or upper surface. Length rather more than 1/20 of an inch.—James.