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were observed, these being mainly Lower Austral forms, and 

 I here give a full list of them, adding also some unpublished 

 records from other portions of eastern North Carolina. 



Plethodon glutinosus. 



VISCID SALAMANDER. 

 Found rather commonly under logs in woods in all four years. 



Stereochilus marginatus. 



MARGINED SALAMANDER. 



A single specimen taken under a log in Great Lake woods in June, 1905, 

 and not noted to be other than Desmognathus fusca till after my return to 

 Raleigh, first called our attention to the fact that this rare species occurred 

 in this region. Special attention was devoted to securing it in 1906, our 

 efforts meeting with great success. One day Henry, our colored cook, 

 led us to look for an alligator which he had seen in the south canal. On 

 arriving at the canal my hopes began to rise as it was nearly dry, there 

 being no stream running through it, and only a few small pools of water 

 standing in its bed, below where the waters of the lake ceased. These 

 pools looked just the right kind of place for the larvae of Spelerpes ruber 

 and hence by analogy for Stereochilus which so greatly resembles them 

 in form. My brother and I set to work to drag out the dead leaves and 

 vegetable mud, and throw it up on the slopjing banks of the canal. On 

 doing this the sirens or salamanders would crawl from under the trash 

 and run swiftly towards the water, in doing which they were usually cap- 

 tured after a second or two of exciting suspense. In this way we soon 

 began to get Stereochilus and before we ceased operations had nearly a 

 dozen, some being obtained by merely scraping away the covering of 

 semi-decayed vegetable matter around the edges of the pools. In the 

 afternoon my brother kept up the good work and got more sijecimens. 



Two days later, iinding that the pools had been about worked out, I went 

 down the bed of the canal and scraped away with my hands the layers of 

 vegetable debris whenever I came to a likely place, and secured in this 

 way sometliing over twenty specimens. They were mostly found lying 

 in little cells just below the surface layer of vegetable matter. One siren, 

 three small Farancia, one small Abastor, and three Rana virgatipes were 

 also captured at this time. 



A few days later I was in Great Lake woods and devoted my energies 

 to dipping out the pools at the lower end of the old overflow from Great 

 Lake into Lake Ellis, with the result of getting about tv/entj Stereochilus 

 (about half of them larvte), half a dozen small sirens, and two small 

 amphiumas. 



In 1907 and 1908 the water in Ellis was somewhat higher. Only seven 

 specimens were secured in 1907 (five of them by dipping while the other 

 two were dug up out of the marsh by Sherman while looking for fish-bait), 

 and only about four or five in 1008. 



In habits Stereochilus seems to approach Siren and Amphiuma with 

 which it was found associated, being apparently an aquatic mud-burrower. 



