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is usually found hiding under flat stones in the beds of brooks, not 
actually under water, but where the soil is thoroughly saturated 
with moisture. When disturbed in its hiding-places, it does not 
entirely depend upon its diminutive limbs for escaping from 
danger, but makes surprisingly rapid progress by doubling its 
body into a series of lateral undulations and suddenly straighten- 
ing it. The result is a number of bewildering jumps. This per- 
formance is varied with a snake-like wriggling. Thus, with a 
combination of agile motions, the little animal makes like a flash 
FIG. 9. THE TWO-LINED OR YELLOW-BACKED SALAMANDER 
From specimen in New York Zodlogical Park 
for the water and secretes itself among the stones. It is seldom 
seen except in the immediate vicinity of water, and the larve 
attain nearly the size of the adult before they begin an air- 
breathing existence. 
The Long-tailed, or Cave, Salamander, Spelerpes longicauda 
Green (Fig. 10), resembles in form the Two-lined Salamander, 
Long-tailea, PUt is a larger species and has a proportionately 
orCave, longer tail. The tail is much compressed and con- 
Salaman- siderably longer than the body. The back is rich 
si yellow, the sides paler. Scattered over the entire upper 
surface are coarse, black dots, which, on the sides of the tail 
