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BELL, Co-Editor 2014 — Chattanooga, Tennessee, 30 July–3 August (JMIH with ASIH, HL, and AES) University of Texas at Austin 2015 — Lawrence, Kansas 30 July–3 August (SSAR with PARC and KHS) Herpetological Conservation JOSEPH C. MITCHELL, Editor Mitchell Ecological Research Services © 2013 Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles NATURAL HISTORY NOTES 675 mm and tail length at 94 mm) was observed attacking and then ingesting a juvenile Liolaemus lemniscatus (SVL = 45 mm) at Fundo Las Lomas, Colina County, Metropolitan region, Central Chile (33.065546°S, 70.670172°W, WGS84; elev. 810 m). The adult was resting in the soil and then chased the L. lemniscatus when it approached, taking ca. five minutes to capture and ingest the small lizard, and then sought refuge under some rocks. The hab- itat was an open and rocky scrubland dominated by Baccharis linearis and Proustia cuneifolia, with an additional assemblage of annual forbs. The area is not currently pristine with the origi- nal vegetation showing anthropogenic disturbance as a result of wood and charcoal extraction, and livestock use. To my knowl- edge, this is the first record of saurophagy for L. monticola as well as for the entire genus of Liolaemus (cf. Vidal and Labra, op. cit.). JUAN C. TORRES-MURA, Unión de Ornitólogos de Chile, Mosqueto FIG. 1. A Senegal Kingfisher (Halcyon senegalensis) with an adult 459 Of 103, Santiago, Chile; e-mail: [email protected]. Günther’s Gliding Lizard (Holaspis guentheri). LIOLAEMUS WIEGMANNII. PREDATION. Lizards are typical weghe 2008. Reptiles du Gabon. Smithsonian Institution, Wash- prey items for birds, however direct observations of predation ington. 272 pp.). It is the first time that this specific predator-prey are relatively rare in the field. The sand lizard Liolaemus wieg- relationship is reported. mannii (SVL = 42–64 mm), is largely restricted to sandy soils of We thank ornithologists Patrice Christy and Jean Pierre a vast region of Argentina and Uruguay (Cei 1993. Reptiles del Vande weghe (Libreville) for the confirmation of the identifica- Noroeste, Nordeste y Este de la Argentina. Museo Regionale di tion of the kingfisher and discussions on its ecology. Scienze Naturali. Torino, Italy. 949 pp.). This species occurs along OLIVIER S. G. PAUWELS, Département des Vertébrés Récents, Institut coastal sand dunes of the Buenos Aires Province in semi-fixed Royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique, Rue Vautier 29, B-1000 Brussels, dunes, usually far away from open spaces and beach (Block et al. Belgium (e-mail: [email protected]); SAFFIAN ITAM (e-mail: saffian@ 2012. J. Herpetol. 46:608–613). This note reports a single observa - gmail.com). tion of predation on Liolaemus wiegmannii by a Burrowing Owl (Athene cunicularia). The Burrowing Owl is commonly found in LIOLAEMUS MONTICOLA (Mountain Lava Lizard). PREDA- grassy plains of Argentina, being the most abundant owl in agro- TION ON LIOLAEMUS LEMNISCATUS. Liolaemus is a diverse ecosystems (Bellocq and Kravetz 1994. Ecol. Austral. 4:29–34). genus of small to medium-sized, omnivorous lizards, distribut- Reptiles, like the sand lizard, are generally less common prey ed in the southern hemisphere of the Neotropical realm. Liolae- item in the owl’s diet (0.3%, Sanchez et al. 2008. Ornitol. Neotrop. mus monticola is endemic to Chile and is distributed in Andean 19:71–80). scrub from Coquimbo to Maule regions, from 500–3000 m elev. During a lizard survey through coastal sand dunes in Arenera (Pincheira-Donoso and Nuñez 2005. Publ. Ocas. Mus. Nac. Hist. Galati (37.38658°S, 57.05781°W; datum Campo Inchauspe), Bue - Nat. Chile 59:1–486). This species is an active forager on insects nos Aires Province, on 31 October 2008 at 1030 h, we observed with more than 50% of its reported diet as ants (Fuentes and Ip- the carcass of an adult female of L. wiergmannii (SVL = 52 mm; inza 1979. J. Herpetol. 13:123–124; Vidal and Labra 2008. Herpe- total length = 64 mm) lying a few centimeters away from an A. tología de Chile. Science Verlag, Santiago. 593 pp.). Here I report cunicularia burrow. The burrow was located on a dune and the an observation