4S4 DUNN. 



it retires for a long winter rest, hiding himself in the ground near 

 water. Once I found one of them in this concealment in a cave six 

 inches deep in the ground by a spring in a cedar grove. 



" Early in March, on coming out of a long hibernation it takes up a 

 strenuous life again. The first thing it does is to seek its mate, going 

 along water-ways, and looking for a suitable place for breeding its 

 offspring. They seem to be very particular in the selection of such a 

 place as we very often find several of them in one place at this season, 

 which is the latter part of March. 



"March 2nd, 1904, at 8.30 in the morning, I found a group of their 

 eggs in a small pond under a cedar grove which covered a low cliff 

 called Takanosu of Iwabune, Tochigi Prefecture. The lower bushes 

 were mostly of Yamabuki and of young elm trees, and the water 

 was 9^ inches deep and the pond was open to the north. There were 

 some thirty or forty eggs contained in a transparent gelatinous mass 

 shaped like a lead weight [sinker] with both ends bent in and attaching 

 to the twig in the pond, and measuring 60 mm. in diameter. 



"The eggs varied in size from 2.5 to 3 mm. in diameter, and their 

 animal poles were yellowish brown, and the vegetative poles were 

 yellow. 



"Also I found two groups of eggs with their mother under dead 

 leaves not far from the same place in a narrow ditch 6 inches wide 

 in rice fields (swamp). 



"In a shallow stream hardly 3 inches deep, running to the north 

 through bushes among young cedar trees I found another two groups 

 with their mother. Most of the eggs were out of water and were in an 

 early stage of development. 



" In a narrow stream, hardly above our heels and about a foot wide, 

 that ran northeast through dark bushes in a wood I found another 

 two groups with eleven adults. There were many chestnut, elm, etc., 

 with a few cedar trees in the woods. 



" In a spring beneath large cedar trees, (the upper part full of clear 

 water that runs some distance into a narrow stream, and the lower, 

 which is wider and swampy, being dug out in connection with the 

 spring for rice growing), I noticed many egg-masses, and after taking 

 out twenty buckets of water I found them hung on dead branches and 

 roots. Toward the center, where the water was deeper I noticed that 

 the eggs were supported by a large cedar branch in such a way that 

 they would not sink deeper than 6 inches. Many eggs and several 

 adults were the result of my efforts. 



"A score of large cedar trees at Iwabune shrine always keep the 



