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They say that there is auother species of Salmon that comes in the 

 fall, having transverse dark spots, large teeth, and nose largely curved, 

 but it does not turn red or but little at most. I will give the name and 

 consider it in place of the "Dog Salmon." 



4th. Spotted Fall Salmon,* '•'■ O-le-araW'^ (accent on first syllable). 



5th. Steel-head, t ^^Quan-nesho^^ (accent last syllable). 



I have been unable to give the right sound in English to the last 

 syllable of the last name. The above is as near as I can make it. 



There is auother salmon which you did not mention. It comes in the 

 last of the summer run; it is as large if not larger than the spring sal- 

 mon, but of a darker color and not so fat. 



It will make number — 



6th.| "^^'-w^6a" (accent first syllable). 



BEITIABKS UPOIV THE OSTEOIiOOlT OF OB'HEOSAURVS VEIVTRAIiliD. 



By Dr. R. IV. SHUFEI.DT, U. S. A. 



(Read before the Biological Society of Washington, D. C, December 23, 1881.) 



Guided, to a great extent, by external characters, modern herpetolo- 

 gists, in the arrangement of our American reptiles, have assigned this 

 lizard to the genus Opheosaurus, of the family Anguidce, of the suborder 

 J)iploglossa. This arrangement brings it very near the gen us GerrhonotnSy 

 a lizard with which I have osteologically comjjared it. The external 

 characters are referred i)rincipally to the form and disposition of the 

 scales, the presence in Gerrlionotus of a ventral line, and the position of 

 the external ear. 



Oplieosaurus ventralis inhabits the entire Austroriparian region, Ten- 

 nessee, Kansas, and several of the Middle States. It is found lurking 

 in the woods in damp places, frequently burrowing uuder ground, and 

 is at all times a gentle and harmless lizard. We all know that in com- 

 mon i^arlance Ophcosaurus has been termed the Glass Snake, from the 

 fact that when a moderate blow is delivered it, it usually parts with a por- 

 tion of its tail, the fracture sometimes taking place at 'one or more 

 points. These ruptures, and they always occur from violence, are in- 

 variably postanal, and the part lost is susceptible of reproduction from 

 Ihe locality at which the fracture took place in the lizard's body. Inter- 

 esting as this part of the natural history of our subject is, it does not 

 rightfully come within the limits of a paper devoted to its osteology, 



* Oiicorhi/nchus keta (Walb.) G. & J. 



t Salmo gairdnerl Rich. 



t Oncorhynchus ckouicha (Walb.) J. & G. (Fall run: "Ekcwau " of Richardson.) 



