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The habitat and habits of this salamander are the same at White Top 

 as at Linville. At the latter place specimens were taken at the original 

 type locality and also about five miles nearer Blowing Rock, in a second 

 growth oak forest along the Yonahlossee road. 



Plethodon glutinosus glutinosus (Green). 



Mt. Vernon, 4; Midway, 1; White Top (up to 3800 feet), 12; Abingdon; 

 Linville (up to 4200 feet), 15; Mt. Sterling (up to 3500 feet), 2; Spring 

 City (1000 feet), 10; Anniston, 3. 



Plethodon jordani Blatchley. 



Mt. Sterling, 37 (new record for North Carolina) ; from 4000 to 4500 

 feet on Sharp Top Mt. Very common, especially in rotten logs. It 

 apparently replaces P. metcalfi in the Smokies as the latter was not found 

 on Sharp Top. Judging from the specimens I have seen P. metcalfi, 

 P. shermani, and P. jordani form a closely related group. P. 

 shermani, of which I have seen three specimens, the type and two others 

 from Wayah Bald Mt. in the Nantahala Range, probably replaces P. 

 metcalfi in that range just as P. jordani seems to do in the Smokies. Of 

 P. jordani I have seen only the present series, and one other with no more 

 definite locality than "Tennessee," but which in all probability came from 

 the Smokies as did the type. Three of my series lacked the red stripe on 

 the side of the head which is so striking a mark of this species. One of 

 these had red dots on the legs. The specimens vary in the size of the 

 stripe and in the amount of pigment present. This seems not at all cor- 

 related with age or sex. 



Of metcalfi, I have seen the large series listed below and in addition some 

 150 specimens of my own collecting in the American Museum from the 

 Blue Ridge and the Pisgah Ridge and others in Washington, Cambridge, 

 and Philadelphia from other localities in the North Carolina mountains. 



The vomerine tooth series is shortest in shermani and longest in jordani 

 but individual variation in jordani and metcalfi may show specimens which 

 have as few teeth as the Nantahala species. The parasphenoids are utterly 

 unreliable for identification. I can detect very little difference in the 

 proportions of these three forms, though the head of jordani is somewhat 

 broader and the snout less swollen than in metcalfi. This, however, varies 

 quite a bit in individuals. The surest characters then are those of color. 

 All the known specimens of shermani have red legs. This is the only 

 species from the Nantahala range. P. jordani from the Smokies is very 

 black with a red stripe on the side of the head but in about 8% of the 

 specimens this stripe is lacking. Dots of red may bf* present on the legs. 

 I am inclined to believe that it is mere coincidence that in the one specimen 

 with rid on the legs the stripe is absent from the cheeks. 



P. metcalfi is the lightest in body color and has no red markings. It was 

 described from the Balsams and is further known from the Blue Ridge, 

 the Pisgah Ridge, the Cowee Mts., and the Tusk witty Range in North 

 Carolina, the Iron Mts. in Tennessee and Virginia, and Brasstown Bald 



