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seem to range much below 3000 feet. Two specimens having a yellow 

 patch on cadi side of the neck were taken at Highlands and on Wayah 

 Bald Mr. in May, L908. 



Desmognathus quadrimaculatus Holbr. 

 MOUNTAIN TRITON. 

 Abundant; the must characteristic salamander of the rocky mountain 

 streams, swimming and burrowing with greal strength and agility among 

 tlic loose stones or debris lying in the beds of the little streamlets. Old 

 and large specimens are black-bellied, while younger and smaller ones 

 are light colored below and much resemble B. fusca, except in size. The 

 larvae attain a much larger size than those of D. fusca. Collected in 

 numbers <>n Grandfather Mt. and at Blantyre, Cane River, and Sunburst, 

 and in less numbers, but still common, at various points in Yancey Co., 

 and at Highlands, Wayah Bald, and Aquone, -Macon Co.; Andrews, and 

 Joanna Bald, Cherokee Co.; Spruce Pine, Mitchell Co.; anil Weaverville, 

 Buncombe Co. This species is not uncommon at least as far down as 



2,000 feet. 



*Leurognathus marmoratus Moore. 

 MOORE'S TRITON". 



Three taken in pool in stream on south side of Grandfather Mt. in 

 .Inly, 1898 (see Moore, Pro.'. Acad. Xat. Sc. Phil., 1899, pp. 316-323). 



The types, taken by Dr. J. Percy Moore, are the only specimens of this 

 species known to have been taken anywhere so far as I know. Appar- 

 ently our first specimens of Desmognathus quadrimaculatus came from 

 the very same pool in which Dr. Moore got his types, and in that case 

 one small pool has provided a new species and furnished also specimens 

 to resurrect an old one. 



Plethodon erythronotus Green. 



RED-BACKED SALAMANDER. 

 Taken by Rhoads on Roan Mt., and by myself at Andrews, in Cherokee 

 Co., May. 1908, the last specimens at an elevation of about 2000 feet. 



Plethodon glutinosus Green. 



VIS('II) SALAMANDER. 



Common up to about 3000 or 3500 feet elevation, above which it seems 

 to he wholly replaced by other forms. Taken more or less commonly at 

 Blantyre, 2200 feet; at Sunburst, Haywood Co., up to about 3300 or 

 3500 feet; at Cane River, and at Andrews, 2000 feet. Two specimens 

 were taken on Grandfather Mt. by Metcalf, but particular elevation not 

 noted. 



Two specimens, a small one and a good sized adult, taken by Sherman 

 between Blowing Rock, Watauga Co., and Linville, Mitchell Co., are 

 worthy of mention. In life they were of the usual color, but hail a broad 

 chestnut band down the hack as in l\ erythronotus. This, however, dis- 

 appeared after the specimens had been placed in preserving fluid, and 

 Dr. Stejneger, to whom I sent them, could not see that they differed 



