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across the back gradually arranging into 32 angular cross bands across the tail, the darker ones occupying 2 to 3 scale rows, the lighter interspaces are scale row less; head and upper neck suffused with light ochre; most dorsal scales edged with orange red, a few of the lighter ones being bright yellow along the keel especially those bordering the blackish shoulder patch behind; legs above like tail, but dark cross bars in fore legs nearly obsolete; three blackish , but ill defined and somewhat insdistinct patches on the loins; whole under surface silvery white with same golden ochre on the flanks.
(2) "Altit. about 3000 ft." "Sept. 12, 1889"  Sceloporus clarki juv. 15849
Head and neck above dark brownish gray. The snout lighter with a regular pattern of greenish white forming an X shaped figure following the inner edge of the super-ocular region, and a spot of similar color with a black central [illeg.] on the middle of the occipital; sides of head and upper neck brownish drab, with a few dusky spots on the upper mandible; a narrow blackish brown streak from the lower part of the eye back over the upper corner of the ear opening; a similar semilunar streak parallel with the head shield as the upper neck; rest of the upper parts of the body and limbs drab grey with well defined black spots and cross bars, the light scales bordering the black ones on the sides of the anterior back tinged with ochraceous; the shoulder patch particularly black, with defined