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Linville, N. C: July 15-22; country generally similar to White Top 

 Gap (see also Dunn, Bull. American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 

 37, pp. 593-634). 



Mt. Sterling, N. C. : July 24-26, Great Smoky Mts. The gap of the 

 Pigeon river forms the northern boundary of the range. Sharp Top or 

 White Rock Mt. is the most northern peak, altitude about 5100 feet; 

 the valley at Mt. Sterling is 1500 feet. 



Spring City, Tennessee: July 29-31; in the Appalachian Valley at the 

 foot of the Cumberland escarpment. The Cumberland plateau has here a 

 general level of 1600 feet and Spring City itself is 781 feet. 



Chattanooga, Tenn.: Aug. 1-3; I visited Signal Mt. and Lookout Mt., 

 both about 2000 feet high, and on opposite sides of the Tennessee, near 

 Chattanooga. 



At the three places where I visited the Cumberland plateau, forest fires 

 had practically spoiled the region for collecting. At Spring City the hills 

 are burnt systematically every fall in order to provide better pasturage 

 for the cattlt . The larger trees are not destroyed but the effect on the 

 small fauna and on forest development can be imagined. 



Anniston, Ala.: Aug. 6-18; southern end of Appalachian valley, alter- 

 nating ridges and valleys ; a region of much underground drainage and with 

 few and large springs and few running streams. A drought was on at 

 the time I was there. Most of my collecting was done in the limits of 

 Camp McClellan and at 800 feet alt. 



Morrisville, Ala.: Aug. 11 and 18. Similar to Anniston, but out in 

 the valley away from the ridge. Alt. 550 feet. 



SPECIES. 



Triturus viridescens (Rafinesque). 



Midway (June 29, July 2), 2 red land forms; Linville (July 15-19), 17 

 water forms in pond at 3800 feet, 17 land forms at 4200 feet; Spring City 

 (July 29), 1 red land form, 1500 feet. 



It may be noteworthy that the newt is comparatively rare in unglaciated 

 upland country and usually found in the red land stage except where ar- 

 tificial ponds have been put in as at Linville where the newt is as common 

 in both stages as one finds it in glaciated New England. 



Ambystoma maculatum (Shaw). 



Mt. Vernon, one adult; Midway, 2 larvae in a pool of water in an aban- 

 doned quarry. 



Ambystoma opacum (Green). 



Mt. Vernon, an immature specimen with the transverse bars not ap- 

 parent, rather irregularly mottled with white, probably recently trans- 

 formed from an egg laid in the fall (see Dunn, 1917). 



Plethodon yonahlossee Dunn. 

 White Top (4000 feet), 6 (new record for Virginia) ; Linville (4200 feet), 8. 



